Pay transparency directive in Germany
2% of job ads on Germany employers' own career sites state pay (October 2026, 63,921 ads from 5,241 employers); transposition of the EU directive: no published draft. Source: Arcadium Data, data as of .
Law status
| Directive | Directive (EU) 2023/970 (Pay Transparency Directive) |
| Transposition deadline | 2026-06-07 |
| Status in Germany | No published draft |
| National measure | Draft prepared, not published |
| Pay-information duty applies from | not set |
| Status source | source, checked 2026-10-23 |
What we observe in job ads
Of 63,921 open job ads that 5,241 employers hiring in Germany publish on their own career sites, 1,497 (2%) state a salary or pay range; 420 employers (8%) 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 Germany transposed the EU Pay Transparency Directive?
No published draft (Draft prepared, not published). The transposition deadline was 2026-06-07; the pay-information duty for job applicants applies in Germany 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 Germany state pay?
2% of 63,921 open job ads on the career sites of 5,241 employers hiring in Germany state a salary or pay range in the fields the job board publishes; 8% 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 Germany.
Cite as: Arcadium Data, "Pay transparency directive in Germany: status & share of ads with pay", https://arcadiumdata.io/pay-transparency/de/, data as of 2026-10-23.