EU Pay Transparency Directive

All 27 member states, one live tracker.

Transposition deadline was 7 June 2026. First pay-gap reports due 7 June 2027 based on 2026 data. Worker right to ask for pay information is already live in countries that have transposed.

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Statuses are an indicative snapshot, sourced from national transposition records. Last verified 25 August 2026. The free tracker at payband.uk/tracker.html updates as things move. If you have a more current source for a state, reply with the link and I will verify and update.

What the directive does

The EU Pay Transparency Directive (Directive 2023/970) requires member states to put in place measures that give workers the right to:

• Ask for and receive their individual pay level and the average pay levels for their category of workers, broken down by sex
• Receive pay information in job adverts before interview
• Have a gender pay gap analysis carried out in organisations with 100 or more employees
• Trigger a joint pay assessment where an unjustified gap of 5 percent or more in any category of workers is not corrected within 6 months
• Be protected from retaliation for asserting any of the above rights

UK consultation

The UK is not transposing the directive. The Department for Business and Trade opened the Equal Pay and Pay Transparency consultation on 14 July 2026, running to 27 October 2026. The consultation covers whether pay information should be included in job adverts and what shape a UK pay transparency regime might take.

The first reporting year for any UK regime, if introduced, would draw on data starting in 2027. Until then, the practical position for UK employers is:

• If you employ staff in any EU member state, the directive applies via that state's national law, regardless of where your business is headquartered
• If you sell AI recruitment tools or pay-decision products into the EU, the directive's supply-chain provisions apply to you
• For UK-only employers, the consultation outcome is the next material signal; until then, voluntary adoption is a strategic choice, not a legal one