Pay transparency directive in Poland
8% of job ads on Poland employers' own career sites state pay (October 2026, 9,924 ads from 1,172 employers); transposition of the EU directive: partly transposed. Source: Arcadium Data, data as of .
Law status
| Directive | Directive (EU) 2023/970 (Pay Transparency Directive) |
| Transposition deadline | 2026-06-07 |
| Status in Poland | Partly transposed |
| National measure | Labour Code amendments (pre-employment pay information) |
| Pay-information duty applies from | 2025-12-24 |
| Status source | source, checked 2026-10-23 |
What we observe in job ads
Of 9,924 open job ads that 1,172 employers hiring in Poland publish on their own career sites, 769 (8%) state a salary or pay range; 204 employers (17%) 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 Poland transposed the EU Pay Transparency Directive?
Partly transposed (Labour Code amendments (pre-employment pay information)). The transposition deadline was 2026-06-07; the pay-information duty for job applicants applies in Poland from 2025-12-24 (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 Poland state pay?
8% of 9,924 open job ads on the career sites of 1,172 employers hiring in Poland state a salary or pay range in the fields the job board publishes; 17% 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 Poland.
Cite as: Arcadium Data, "Pay transparency directive in Poland: status & share of ads with pay", https://arcadiumdata.io/pay-transparency/pl/, data as of 2026-10-23.