Only 31.7% of Active Job Postings Disclose Pay

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Share of 342,581 active postings that state an actual salary vs. those that make you apply to find out. 'Competitive pay' does not count as disclosure.

The transparency gap is narrowing, but pay is still the exception

Of 342,581 active postings, 31.7% state a salary. The other two thirds still ask you to invest time before revealing the single number most likely to be a dealbreaker. Disclosure is rising, but it is nowhere near default, and the headlines about pay transparency describe a direction, not the current reality.

It is driven by law, not goodwill

Where disclosure happens, it is largely because it is required. Pay-transparency laws in states like California, Colorado, New York, and Washington force employers to post ranges, which is why the same company can show a salary on a listing tied to one location and hide it on another. If a posting discloses pay, it is often because the employer had no choice, not because the market changed its mind.

Update, 2026-09-05: why this number moved from 23.7%

This page originally reported 23.7% disclosure on a corpus of about 250,000 active postings in July. Re-measuring the identical definition today, on a corpus that has since grown to 342,581 active postings, gives 31.7%, a genuine 8-point increase rather than noise. We cannot fully separate how much of that is more employers actually disclosing pay versus improvements to our own salary-field parsing over the same period; several source-specific parsing fixes landed in that window. We are reporting the new number because it is what the same methodology returns today, and flagging the ambiguity rather than presenting it as a clean trend.

How we measured it

We counted the share of active postings with a usable, non-null salary value, across the full active corpus of 342,581 listings. We did not count vague signals like 'competitive salary' as disclosure. The 31.7% figure is postings with an actual number, which is the thing that helps you decide whether a role is worth your time.

What to do with this

Two moves. First, if a posting does not list pay, it is fair, and increasingly expected, to ask for the range before the first call. Silence on salary is not a reason to stay silent yourself. Second, when you do see a number, remember most disclosed ranges are the floor, not the ceiling, set to attract rather than to cap. Upload your resume to Seeker to see which of your target roles disclose pay and how your profile lines up against them.

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