How many job ads state pay? Latvia 98%, UK 72%, Poland 19%, Pakistan 6%

Counts from public job-board list pages in October 2026. Aggregates only, no personal data.

Every day I read the public list pages of national job boards and count what they show. One column turns out to differ more between countries than almost anything else: whether the posting states a salary at all.

Latvia, UK, Croatia, Pakistan and Denmark: 15 October 2026. Poland: 26 October 2026.

What the gap means

Latvia is near 100% because the board requires it. A rule on the platform does more than any market habit: 34 postings out of 2,173 had no figure.

The UK is a habit, not a rule. Seven in ten of the newest Reed postings state a lower bound, and it is enough to compute regional medians (London GBP 35,500 a year, South East GBP 35,000, North West GBP 32,000).

Poland varies by region far more than by board. On 26 October the share was 26.9% in Mazowieckie (Warsaw's region, 3,068 live postings) but 9.3% in Lubelskie and 9.9% in Warmińsko-Mazurskie. Ten of the sixteen voivodeships are between 14% and 22%.

Pakistan barely states pay (168 of 3,000), so medians exist only for the largest cities: Lahore PKR 62,500 a month, Islamabad PKR 50,000, Karachi PKR 46,800.

Denmark's jobindex shows no pay on its search pages at all, so a Danish pay series has to come from somewhere else.

Why it matters for anyone using job-ad data

• A median of advertised pay is a median of the postings that chose to show it. In a 6% market it describes a small and probably unusual group.
• Comparing pay between countries from job ads mixes a measurement difference with a pay difference. Compare the disclosure share first.
• Within one country, a region with low disclosure is not necessarily a low-pay region; it is a region where the number is less reliable.

How the numbers are made

• Public list (search) pages only, read once a day; posting pages are never opened.
• A posting is counted once per town; regions are mapped from the place text with a small table per country.
• "States pay" means the list page shows a figure; the median uses the lower bound of a range, never mixes currencies or periods, and is shown only where at least five values exist.
• Employer names that are a person's name are not kept.

Get the data

• Daily tables for these boards (counts, new and removed postings, pay share and medians by region), free: huggingface.co/datasets/listingworks
• Run the scrapers yourself, pay per result: apify.com/listingworks
• Daily files per source by subscription: listingworks.net

Yusuke Suda, listingworks (Yokohama). Corrections welcome by email: y*****@listingworks.net