Salary Explorer · Pay Transparency Report
How many employers actually put a salary range in the job posting? Measured daily from live US postings on company career systems — not surveys, not estimates. Free to cite with attribution.
Postings that disclose pay
40.5%
of 67,421 live postings
The compliance gap
46.3% vs 25.4%
posting-law states vs states without — 1.8x higher
Median disclosed base pay
$170,000
midpoint of disclosed annual ranges
High-volume states only. “Posting law” = the state requires a pay range in the job posting itself.
| State | Disclosure rate | Live postings | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Californiaposting law | 51.2% | 6,618 | |
| Texas | 22.0% | 1,989 | |
| New Yorkposting law | 45.6% | 1,962 | |
| Massachusettsposting law | 31.1% | 1,169 | |
| Virginia | 24.1% | 863 | |
| Washingtonposting law | 58.5% | 844 | |
| Marylandposting law | 39.5% | 665 | |
| Washington, D.C.posting law | 28.8% | 510 | |
| Florida | 19.1% | 497 | |
| North Carolina | 26.6% | 473 | |
| Illinoisposting law | 36.0% | 467 | |
| Pennsylvania | 27.1% | 424 | |
| Coloradoposting law | 50.1% | 399 | |
| Georgia | 40.2% | 366 | |
| Tennessee | 35.7% | 294 | |
| Arizona | 22.4% | 263 |
| Metro | Disclosure rate | Live postings | |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 55.9% | 11,499 | |
| New York | 55.2% | 8,433 | |
| Los Angeles | 46.4% | 2,589 | |
| Washington DC | 29.4% | 1,672 | |
| Austin | 27.0% | 1,565 | |
| Boston | 34.6% | 1,426 | |
| Seattle | 52.5% | 1,304 | |
| Chicago | 39.2% | 1,150 | |
| Dallas | 43.6% | 952 | |
| Denver | 50.8% | 716 | |
| Atlanta | 33.9% | 587 | |
| Phoenix | 21.6% | 450 | |
| Raleigh-Durham | 16.4% | 318 | |
| Miami | 13.9% | 317 | |
| San Diego | 53.9% | 284 |
| Industry | Disclosure rate | Live postings | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 32.7% | 10,681 | |
| AI | 53.7% | 5,286 | |
| Healthcare | 37.1% | 3,727 | |
| SaaS | 43.0% | 2,876 | |
| Manufacturing | 40.7% | 2,771 | |
| Fintech | 55.0% | 2,418 | |
| CPG | 17.7% | 784 | |
| E-commerce | 19.6% | 726 | |
| Biotech | 45.4% | 650 |
Highest share of live postings with a disclosed range (minimum 15 live postings).
40.5% of the 67,421 live US job postings tracked by ForgeApply include an employer-disclosed pay range (as of 2026-07-30). This is measured from live postings on company career systems, not from surveys.
The data says yes, with a large compliance gap: 46.3% of postings in states that require a pay range in the posting disclose salary, versus 25.4% in states without such a law — roughly 1.8x higher where disclosure is required.
Among high-volume states right now: Washington (58.5%), California (51.2%), Colorado (50.1%). Full state table above; rates move as postings churn.
ForgeApply continuously tracks live job postings published on company career systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable). A posting counts as disclosing pay when the employer includes a salary range in the posting itself. Figures refresh daily and describe currently-open roles; the sample skews toward tech and tech-adjacent employers.
Free to cite with attribution and a link. Suggested citation: “ForgeApply Pay Transparency Report, July 2026 — forgeapply.com/pay-transparency-report”. Journalists: for custom cuts of this data (a specific state, metro, industry, or time window), email support@forgeapply.com — we can usually turn queries around same-day.
Computed 2026-07-30 from 67,421 live US job postings tracked by ForgeApply on company career systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable). A posting counts as disclosing pay when the employer includes a salary range in the posting itself. “Posting law” states are jurisdictions that require a pay range in the posting (not merely on request): California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington, and Washington, D.C. State assignment uses the posting’s listed location, so fully remote roles without a state are excluded from state-level figures; the corpus skews toward tech and tech-adjacent employers. Median pay is the midpoint of disclosed annual base ranges. Figures describe currently-open roles and change daily as postings churn.
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