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The EU Pay Transparency Directive, which came into force three years ago, must be implemented into national law by June 7, 2026. The aim is to reduce salary differences between women and men through mandatory information and to ensure more fairness in the labor market. Among other things, companies must tell applicants the intended salary in advance of an interview – ideally, but not necessarily, in the job advertisement.
But as a current analysis by the job site Indeed shows, it is not just the federal government that is far from implementing the EU requirements on time. German companies are also lagging far behind, because on average only one in eight job advertisements (12.5 percent) contains specific salary information.
While Germany brings up the rear in Europe, a look at other European countries shows that things can also be done differently: According to Indeed analysis, Great Britain, as a non-EU country, clearly leads the ranking with 56 percent, followed by the Netherlands (48 percent), France (43 percent) and Ireland (39 percent).
IT how opaque
But back to non-transparent Germany. According to Indeed, there are clear differences between different professional groups when it comes to salary transparency in job offers.
Salary information is most often found in advertisements for service professions such as cleaning services (34.8 percent), private and public security (23.5 percent), transportation (22.3 percent) and customer service (21.3 percent).
When it comes to IT jobs, however, information about remuneration is by far the least common. Bottom of the comparison with a share of 4.4 percent is the data & analysis area that includes jobs like Data Scientist or BI Consultant belong. With a share of five percent But the IT applications & solutions professional group also cuts through, including jobs like IT-Manager or System Engineernot much better. Also in the Software development contain less than ten percent Salary information for all positions.
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