16% of 987,513 examined postings state a salary. JobShifu measures this by crawling employer applicant-tracking systems directly rather than buying a job feed, so a posting counts as silent only after its own description was read and no pay was found in it.
Disclosure rises with seniority rather than falling: 8.1% of entry-level roles state pay, against 38.8% of Staff roles. The least forthcoming level of all is Internship, at 3.9%.
By level
Ordered least to most forthcoming. Examined is postings whose description was actually read, which is the denominator of every rate here.
| Level | Examined | Employers | States pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Internship | 20,613 | 2,504 | 3.9% |
| Entry level | 65,540 | 4,392 | 8.1% |
| Mid level | 631,838 | 18,582 | 12.2% |
| Lead | 37,596 | 4,659 | 19.1% |
| Manager | 94,118 | 8,096 | 24.3% |
| Exec | 2,402 | 1,049 | 24.6% |
| Senior | 77,957 | 7,931 | 29% |
| Director | 35,523 | 5,865 | 37.6% |
| Staff | 21,926 | 3,164 | 38.8% |
By country
| Country | Examined | Employers | States pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| the United States | 546,390 | 14,426 | 21.1% |
| India | 37,296 | 1,584 | 0.4% |
| Canada | 34,279 | 1,906 | 22% |
| the United Kingdom | 20,801 | 2,531 | 3.1% |
| Germany | 10,628 | 1,676 | 3.4% |
| Mexico | 8,016 | 832 | 1.6% |
| France | 7,910 | 714 | 10.5% |
| Australia | 7,665 | 1,015 | 2.3% |
| China | 7,174 | 528 | 0.5% |
| Singapore | 6,824 | 780 | 0.9% |
| Brazil | 6,500 | 781 | 0.9% |
What a rate cannot tell you
A rate describes a market. It cannot tell you whether the posting you are looking at is one of them. That is a different question, and it is settled by one requisition's own crawl history: the date the posting was first seen, whether the same requisition was listed before, and how long it has been up since.
How this was measured
A posting counts as silent only after its description was read and no pay was found in it. That distinction is what makes this figure reportable at all: the record separates "examined, nothing stated" from "never examined", so silence here is an observation rather than a gap in our own coverage. The 11,312 postings never examined are excluded rather than counted as silent.
The figure is a floor, not a ceiling. Pay stated in an unusual format inside a description can be missed by the extractor, and every miss pushes the disclosed share down rather than up. Where the pay arrives as a structured field from the employer's system instead of as prose, there is nothing to miss. So the real rate is at least this, and plausibly a little higher.
Country is shown only where at least 5,000 postings were examined. Postings carrying no country are counted in the level table and left out of the country one, rather than being assigned a guess.
Any figure resting on fewer than 25 examined postings, or fewer than 5 employers, is withheld rather than shown.