EU coverage · Updated July 2026
Hiring in the EU? Your postings have a new standard to meet.
The EU Pay Transparency Directive requires applicants to see the pay range before the interview — and the strictest national implementations put it in the job ad itself. PayTransparency checks your postings against that standard alongside every US state law.
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What the directive requires in hiring
- Pay disclosure to applicants
- Initial pay or range before the interview — in the posting or another pre-interview channel, per member state
- Salary-history questions
- Banned in every member state’s implementation
- Gender-neutral postings
- Vacancy notices and job titles must be gender-neutral
- Pay-gap reporting
- Phased from June 2027 — annually at 250+ employees, every 3 years at 100–249
- In force today
- Italy, Slovakia, Lithuania, Malta — with the rest of the EU legislating through 2027
Why put the range in the posting
The directive lets each member state choose where the pre-interview disclosure happens, and the implementing laws differ. Publishing the range in the ad is the one approach that satisfies every national version at once — and it is what US state laws already require for most multi-state postings. One standard, one workflow, no per-country exceptions to maintain. For the full legal picture, read our EU directive guide.
How PayTransparency handles EU roles
The validator checks every posting against the directive’s posting-disclosure standard — is there a concrete pay range, is it specific enough to inform negotiation — and flags salary-history language. Because member-state penalties are still being defined, EU violations are shown without a fine estimate until national schedules land; when they do, our rules engine picks them up within five business days, and paid plans alert you when a change affects one of your open postings. Track those changes on the law news page.
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