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EU Pay Transparency Tracker
A standing, monthly measure of how many live European tech job ads state a salary. The EU Pay Transparency Directive's transposition deadline passed on 7 June 2026; this page tracks what job ads actually show, month by month, so the signal stays visible after the one-off H1 2026 report. Every number counts only ads that state a salary figure. Nothing here is a compliance claim.
11.6%
of live tech ads state a salary, across 4,347 ads
15.6%
of employers state a salary in at least one live ad (122 of 780)
503
live ads with a stated salary in October 2026
Salary disclosure by job location
Of 4,347 live tech ads in October 2026, 503 (11.6%) state a salary or salary range. The split by job-location country is below; a stated salary means a number in the ad, not a reference to a collective agreement.
- CA 66.7% (12 of 18)
- Austria 62.9% (44 of 70)
- United States 40% (18 of 45)
- Ireland 27% (44 of 163)
- United Kingdom 15.2% (235 of 1545)
- Remote (no fixed location) 14.6% (67 of 458)
- France 11.8% (2 of 17)
- Switzerland 10.9% (17 of 156)
- Spain 8.7% (2 of 23)
- Netherlands 6.1% (15 of 246)
- CY 3.1% (1 of 32)
- Germany 3% (44 of 1475)
Month by month
The overall disclosure rate was 6.7% in July 2026 and 11.6% in October 2026. The table tracks a set of key job-location countries over the same months.
| Month | Germany | United Kingdom | Austria | United States | Remote (no fixed location) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | 0.3% | 9.7% | 45.7% | 55% | 10.4% |
| August 2026 | 4% | 14.5% | 57.9% | 54.2% | 13.3% |
| September 2026 | 3.9% | 14.5% | 53.1% | 51.1% | 11.9% |
| October 2026 | 3% | 15.2% | 62.9% | 40% | 14.6% |
Why this tracker exists
The EU Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970) required member states to transpose its rules by 7 June 2026. Among other things, it gives applicants the right to know the initial pay or pay range for a position, in the ad itself or before the interview. Job ads are only the visible end of that duty, disclosure can also happen later in the hiring process, but ads are the part the market can see. The one-off H1 2026 report measured a single snapshot; this tracker keeps the same measure live, month by month.
Methodology
Each month a snapshot counts the tech job ads live on Jobdex on capture day, aggregated directly from company career sites via their applicant tracking systems. A salary counts only when the ad states a number; references to a collective-agreement minimum without a figure do not count. Shares are reported per ad and, where the snapshot carries it, per company with each employer counted once. Country is the ad's job-location country; remote roles without a fixed location are their own bucket. This describes stated disclosure practice in the sample, not legal compliance: several employers are headquartered or hiring outside the EU, where the directive does not apply. Snapshots are append-only, so a published month never changes retroactively.
Cite freely with a link to this page. Every month's numbers are downloadable as JSON. The underlying live data is browsable at jobdex.io/jobs.