diff --git a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
index 9137086c0..4ef330dd2 100644
--- a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
+++ b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
@@ -199,8 +199,6 @@ ITEM_PROCESSOR = 'scrapy.pipelines.ItemPipelineManager'
 ITEM_PIPELINES = {}
 ITEM_PIPELINES_BASE = {}
 
-JOBDIR = ''
-
 LOG_ENABLED = True
 LOG_ENCODING = 'utf-8'
 LOG_FORMATTER = 'scrapy.logformatter.LogFormatter'