Pay transparency directive in Spain
7% of job ads on Spain employers' own career sites state pay (October 2026, 13,872 ads from 1,695 employers); transposition of the EU directive: draft law, not yet adopted. Source: Arcadium Data, data as of .
Law status
| Directive | Directive (EU) 2023/970 (Pay Transparency Directive) |
| Transposition deadline | 2026-06-07 |
| Status in Spain | Draft law, not yet adopted |
| National measure | Draft 2026-08-03 |
| Pay-information duty applies from | not set |
| Status source | source, checked 2026-10-23 |
What we observe in job ads
Of 13,872 open job ads that 1,695 employers hiring in Spain publish on their own career sites, 933 (7%) state a salary or pay range; 234 employers (14%) state pay on at least one ad.
Sample caveat: ads on employers' own career sites (the applicant tracking systems we read daily), staffing agencies left out; job boards and agency ads are not in it, so this is not a national rate. Pay counts when the ad states a minimum or maximum in a field the job board publishes; pay written only in the ad text is not counted. Shares move as we add employers. Monthly trend and download: Pay Disclosure Monitor; by ATS and country: pay transparency statistics.
Source: Arcadium Data jobs database, read from 40,634 public company job boards (no logins). Company-level counts only: no job texts, no names of people. Data as of 2026-10-23.
Questions
Has Spain transposed the EU Pay Transparency Directive?
Draft law, not yet adopted (Draft 2026-08-03). The transposition deadline was 2026-06-07; the pay-information duty for job applicants applies in Spain from not set (status 2026-10-23).
What changes for job ads?
Article 5 of Directive (EU) 2023/970 gives applicants the right to know the starting pay or its range before the interview, for example in the job ad, and bars employers from asking about pay history. How it must be shown is set by each national law.
What share of job ads in Spain state pay?
7% of 13,872 open job ads on the career sites of 1,695 employers hiring in Spain state a salary or pay range in the fields the job board publishes; 14% of these employers state pay on at least one ad (as of 2026-10-23). This is our sample of employers' own career sites, not every job ad in Spain.
Cite as: Arcadium Data, "Pay transparency directive in Spain: status & share of ads with pay", https://arcadiumdata.io/pay-transparency/es/, data as of 2026-10-23.