Do Employers Comply with Pay Transparency Requirements in Job Postings?

Richard Audoly and Roshie Xing

No 20251002, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Over the past few months, New Jersey and Vermont have joined a growing number of U.S. states in requiring employers to include an estimated salary range in their online job listings. Has this push for greater pay transparency been effective? In this post, we use granular data on U.S. job postings from Lightcast to assess employers’ compliance with these new regulations. Focusing on the jurisdictions that adopted pay transparency laws early on, we find that many employers ignore pay transparency requirements; roughly a quarter of job listings covered by these laws fail to include salary information.

Keywords: pay transparency; job postings; regulatory compliance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J38 J48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-10-02
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DOI: 10.59576/lse.20251002

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