Paste the numbers from your last handful of posts. You get your own median, which posts genuinely beat it, and by how far — because “that one did well” is only meaningful against the ones that did not. Benchmarked against you, not against an industry average nobody can honestly source.
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Every “average LinkedIn engagement rate” figure you have read came from whatever sample that vendor happened to have. We would be inventing one too.
A tool whose customers are mostly 2,000-follower consultants publishes a very different “average” from one selling to enterprise brand pages. Neither is wrong. Neither describes you.
A 500-follower account with fifteen engaged colleagues will out-rate a 50,000-follower account almost every time. Comparing yourself to a pooled average mostly measures how big everyone else was.
The only comparison that survives scrutiny is your own recent history, which controls for follower count, audience and format all at once. That is what this does.
Honest about what this cannot do: with fewer than five posts a median is not really a median, and one viral post will distort a small set. Ten or more is where it starts telling you something you did not already know.
On your profile, go to your activity and open each recent post. Impressions are under the post; reactions and comments are on the post itself.
Consecutive ones, not your favourites. Cherry-picking the good ones is how you end up with a baseline you always beat.
The interesting number is usually how far your best sits above your median, and whether the gap is one lucky post or a pattern you could repeat on purpose.
Hypelio keeps the baseline for you, across every account you write for, and turns it into the report a client will actually read. One account or twenty.
The free tools stay free and stay signup-free. That is not a trial.