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Now Hiring Sign Templates
A 24 × 18 in hiring sign for the curb outside a small business. Headline at 3.6 inches of cap height — a 30-foot read from a moving car — and the ask sits in a white field of its own, because the phone number is the whole point of the sign and it is the thing that gets lost.
No templates match that.
The headline is not the message
Every hiring sign says NOW HIRING. That word is doing almost no work, because a driver already knows what a sign outside a restaurant with two words on it means.
The message is how to apply, and it is the line that is usually smallest. So on this template it gets its own white field — separated from the flood, higher contrast than anything around it, and sized to be read after the car has slowed rather than before.
Give it one route, not three. A phone number or a short URL or "ask inside" — never all three. A person at a curb remembers one thing.
Name the job if you can
"NOW HIRING" attracts everyone and therefore no one. "HIRING LINE COOKS" or "HIRING DRIVERS — CDL" does two things a generic sign cannot: it filters, and it tells somebody who already does that work that this is a job they can take today.
It is the same finding as a hiring post online — the role is what makes a person stop, and it is what makes them tell somebody else. The headline on this template is editable text; the trade is one word of generality for a much better applicant.
The curb is a different distance from the corner
A hiring sign is read from 30 feet at low speed — traffic slowing into a parking lot — rather than from 35 feet at road speed. That is why the cap height here is 3.6 inches rather than the 4.2 the directional signs use: one inch per ten feet, plus the trade's 20 percent for moving traffic.
It buys you a second line you would not otherwise have, and the right thing to spend it on is the role.
Print and place
24 × 18 in on 4 mm corrugated plastic, H-stake, 150 DPI at final size with 0.125 in of bleed. Double-sided if the curb is approached from both directions.
Placement on a verge or median is governed by local sign rules that vary by city, and a sign on your own frontage is usually the uncomplicated option. Worth one call to your city's code office before you order a dozen.
Questions
What size is a now hiring sign?
24 × 18 inches landscape on corrugated plastic — the standard yard-sign board.
How large does the text need to be?
One inch of cap height per ten feet, plus about 20 percent beside moving traffic. At the 30 feet a curb sign is read from, that is 3.6 inches for the headline.
Should I put the pay on it?
If it is competitive, yes — a wage is the single most effective line on a hiring sign and most businesses leave it off. If it is not competitive, the sign is not the place to have that conversation.
Phone number or a website?
One of them. A person reading a sign from a car retains one route to you; two routes means neither gets remembered.
Is "now hiring" or "help wanted" better?
Both are searched at the same level and both read fine. "Now hiring" is the more current phrasing; the headline is editable either way.
Can I use these commercially?
Yes — that is what they are for. No royalty, no credit, and the permission does not expire. That is true on the free plan as well as the paid one.