Salary transparency reality

"Competitive salary" is rarer than you think. We checked 7,750 employers to prove it.

We checked how many job ads actually include a salary.
The answer surprised us.

"Competitive salary." Two words most job seekers have learned to distrust. The data tells a more transparent story than the stereotype.

✅ TL;DR Among 7,750 advertisers with at least five postings, 57.9% disclosed a real salary on essentially every listing, and a further 26.8% did so on most — 84.7% combined. Total non-disclosure across five or more postings: just 109 advertisers, 1.4%. Most advertisers on the boards we looked at do publish real numbers, most of the time.

So why does it still feel like nobody shares salaries?

A few possibilities worth holding in mind: the non-disclosers may be concentrated among a small number of high-volume posters rather than evenly spread, so they shape your impression of the whole market even though they're not representative of it. Salary disclosure norms also differ sharply by seniority, sector, and region — an aggregate average hides a lot of variation. And "includes a number" isn't the same as "includes a useful number" — a wide, vague band technically counts as disclosure but doesn't help you evaluate the role much better than no number at all.

✅ Always discloses

57.9% of advertisers include a real salary figure on every posting.

👍 Mostly discloses

A further 26.8% include salary on 75–99% of their postings.

🚫 Never discloses

Just 1.4% of advertisers withhold salary across every posting — the real minority.

🎯 What this means for your search
If you're weighing whether to apply to a role with no salary listed, it's reasonable to ask for a range early — most employers and agencies are used to the question, and disclosure is the norm, not the exception, in our data. An advertiser who consistently withholds salary across many postings, when most of their peers don't, is worth treating as a minor yellow flag rather than the default expectation.

See who actually discloses pay

GetJobzi tracks salary-transparency behaviour per advertiser as part of a fuller trust picture.

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