--- title: Nearly Half of Job Posts on Indeed Now Include Salary Ranges description: 'Pay transparency is becoming the norm: The share of job listings on Indeed.com that include pay info has more than doubled in three years.' authors: - name: Adam Hardy role: Lead Data Reporter url: https://money.com/author/adam-hardy/ bio: Adam Hardy is a lead data journalist at Money, where he frequently reports on financial barriers that affect low-income Americans. Adam’s work has also appeared in Business Insider, Forbes, Nasdaq, The Penny Hoarder, Yahoo! Finance and more than a dozen local and regional newspapers. education: University of South Florida, BA, Magazine Journalism at_money_since: 2021 articles: 501 covers: - Career Advice - Banking - Business - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology also_seen_in: - The Penny Hoarder - Forbes Advisor - Creative Loafing - The New York Times - The Washington Post - Bloomberg - Harvard Law School - The Federal Register - National Consumer Law Center - CBS News - Becker's Hospital Review - Business Insider - Mother Jones - The Week - Fortune - The Philadelphia Inquirer - National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NAFSAA) - Education Advisory Board (EAB) - The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) - This Morning with Gordon Deal - Empower - Reddit social: - https://www.x.com/hardyjournalism - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hardyjournalism/ editors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Career Advice - Banking - Business - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2023-03-15T19:56:15.000Z' modified: '2024-02-18T13:18:34.000Z' section: Career Advice tags: - News word_count: 629 canonical: https://money.com/job-posts-include-salary-ranges-indeed/ type: NewsArticle source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Man looking at his laptop searching for jobs](https://img.money.com/2023/03/News-Jobs-include-salary-info.jpg) Knowing how much a job pays before you apply is quickly becoming the norm. The share of job listings that include [salary ranges](https://money.com/pay-transparency-laws-help-get-raise/) has more than doubled in recent years, according to the [hiring site](https://money.com/best-job-search-sites/) Indeed. According to a [salary transparency report](https://www.hiringlab.org/2023/03/14/us-pay-transparency-march-2023/) released Tuesday by Indeed, about 44% of the nationwide listings on its site include pay information as of February. - Over the past three years, the number of job posts that include salaries has skyrocketed by 137%, Indeed says. - While almost half of national listings now have pay info, job posts in many major metro areas are far more likely to include that information. - In the Denver metro area, for example, 77% of job ads include pay details. In the Seattle and Spokane metros, more than 70% of listings share what the positions pay. - However, [pay transparency](https://money.com/dollar-scholar-pay-transparency/) is much rarer in the South, according to Indeed data. The report looked at metros with a population of at least 500,000. Of those, the least transparent areas are McAllen, Texas; Jackson, Mississippi; and Memphis — with only 30%, 31% and 32% of job postings advertising salary, respectively. ## What’s driving the trend In a bid to close the racial and gender pay gap, a wave of new [salary transparency](https://money.com/pay-transparency-laws-employers-share-salaries/) legislation is forcing employers to disclose what their new positions are paying upfront, and, in some cases, the new rules allow current workers to demand a salary range for their roles. - Perhaps the biggest leader of the trend is Colorado. Starting in 2021, the state required employers to include a pay range and an explanation of their benefits package on all job listings. - Scott Moss, the labor standards director at Colorado's Department of Labor and Employment [told Money in 2021](https://money.com/new-pay-transparency-law/) that the law applies to any company with at least one staff member in the state — and to remote job listings as well. - “If the employer is covered under the act, then they have to post the pay in any job listings,” Moss said. - Colorado’s law had an outsized impact on salary transparency, even outside the state. An [analysis by Money](https://money.com/new-pay-transparency-law/) found the state’s disclosure requirements led Amazon, Apple, Hilton, IBM and other major firms to include salary details on their remote job listings. - Beyond that, several other states and localities have implemented similar rules to Colorado. New York City began requiring local firms to [disclose pay on job listings](https://money.com/pay-transparency-laws-help-get-raise/) starting in November 2022, and similar state-wide salary rules for California, Washington and Rhode Island went into effect at the beginning of 2023. According to Bloomberg, about a dozen additional states are considering similar pay transparency measures. ## What the experts say If your city or state doesn’t have salary transparency laws yet, you still stand to benefit from the trend, experts say. - “Even in areas without active salary disclosure requirements, pay transparency has significantly increased in the past year,” Cory Stahle, economist at Indeed Hiring Lab, wrote in the report. - That’s because it’s becoming easier for national firms to just put the pay range on their job ads, Stahle notes — rather than to keep that information hidden and risk running afoul of the glut of new local- and state-level transparency laws. - Career experts also underscore that [pay transparency laws can help you earn more money](https://money.com/new-hack-find-job-pays/) in your current job as well, no matter where you live: Now, it’s much easier to find salary details for comparable roles. If you find that you’re currently being paid less than new hires at your employer — or even a competing firm — you can use that information to [negotiate a raise](https://money.com/ask-for-a-raise-scipt-2022/). 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