Reports / October 2026
Data report · October 2026 · draft
Pay Disclosure Monitor: pay in job postings on employer career sites
Observed on employer career sites (ATS sample), EU with the US as a reference, October 2026
Draft: 1 tracked day so far. The monitor is published once it has 28 days of history on a fixed employer panel; until then it is not indexed.
Key findings
On 2026-10-23, 8.6% of the 26,354 employers we read on their own careers sites in 27 EU countries stated pay in at least one open job posting, and 3.4% of their 249,205 postings did. Employers with 1-9 open jobs disclosed pay in 2.4% of postings, those with 250+ in 3.0%. These are observed disclosure rates in an employer-site (ATS) sample that leans towards large multinationals; they are not national figures and say nothing about whether an employer complies with the law. Source: Arcadium Data, data as of .
- Employer level: 8.6% of EU employers in the sample state pay in at least one posting; 3.4% of postings do.
- By employer size (open jobs as the size proxy): 1-9 2.4%, 10-49 4.0%, 50-249 4.0%, 250+ 3.0% of postings state pay.
- US reference, same method: 24.5% of 761,316 postings state pay, where several states require a pay range in the ad.
- The EU Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970) requires pay information before the interview, not necessarily in the ad. A posting without pay is not a breach.
Share of postings that state pay, by employer size (EU)
Employer size = the employer's open jobs across all countries on 2026-10-23.
Share of employers that state pay at least once, by size (EU)
An employer counts once it states pay in at least one of its open postings in that country.
Observed disclosure by employer size
| Region | Employer size | Postings | With pay | Posting rate | Employers | Employer rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU | All employers | 249,205 | 8,432 | 3.4% | 26,354 | 8.6% |
| EU | 1-9 open jobs | 27,927 | 670 | 2.4% | 11,370 | 3.3% |
| EU | 10-49 open jobs | 51,663 | 2,057 | 4.0% | 5,411 | 12.5% |
| EU | 50-249 open jobs | 67,530 | 2,688 | 4.0% | 4,872 | 13.9% |
| EU | 250+ open jobs | 102,085 | 3,017 | 3.0% | 4,701 | 11.4% |
| US | All employers | 761,316 | 186,283 | 24.5% | 12,212 | 70.7% |
| US | 1-9 open jobs | 16,714 | 8,695 | 52.0% | 4,564 | 60.0% |
| US | 10-49 open jobs | 68,685 | 36,375 | 53.0% | 4,327 | 74.4% |
| US | 50-249 open jobs | 144,090 | 59,829 | 41.5% | 2,234 | 80.5% |
| US | 250+ open jobs | 531,827 | 81,384 | 15.3% | 1,087 | 80.6% |
Methodology
- Open jobs read from employers' own careers sites and applicant tracking systems (Workday, Oracle, SmartRecruiters, Greenhouse, Ashby, Personio, Teamtailor, Recruitee, Lever, Workable) without logging in. Staffing agencies and cross-source duplicates removed.
- Pay stated = a structured pay field of the ATS or a clear pay range in the posting text. A posting is counted in its first listed country.
- Employer size proxy = the employer's open jobs across all countries that day (1-9, 10-49, 50-249, 250+). It is not headcount.
- The trend uses a fixed employer panel (boards known before the panel cut-off), so a newly added board cannot move it.
- Source table: the daily pay-transparency history of the posted-pay feed (one row per country and size band).
Coverage and caveats
- Sample bias: employer-site ATS boards skew to large and multinational employers. Job-board-based studies (all employers, all channels) report much higher national disclosure rates in some countries; the two are not comparable, and we do not rank countries on this sample.
- In-ad pay is mandatory only in a few member states (for example Italy, Lithuania, Austria and, in part, Poland). Everywhere else the directive asks for pay information before the interview, which a posting may not show. An observed rate is not a compliance rate, and this report makes no statement about any employer meeting or missing a legal duty.
- Coverage on 2026-10-23: 8,432 EU postings with pay and 186,283 US postings with pay in the underlying feed; 1 tracked day (history from 2026-10-23).
CSV columns: as_of, region, employer_size_band, open_jobs, jobs_with_pay, observed_job_disclosure_rate, employers, employers_with_pay, observed_employer_disclosure_rate. Licence: CC BY 4.0, cite as below. Aggregates only: no names of people, no job texts, no venue, dealer or hotel names.
Cite as: Arcadium Data, "Pay Disclosure Monitor: pay in job postings on employer career sites", October 2026, https://arcadiumdata.io/reports/pay-disclosure-monitor/, data as of 2026-10-23.