Job ad with pay information
Wording for the starting pay or pay range that job postings must state from 2026.
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Templates, overviews and an online tool on the EU Pay Transparency Directive. Everything is free to use, no registration required.
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Gender Pay Gap Benchmark
Runs in your browser. No sign-up, no installation, and no company data to upload.
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Find out where your gender pay gap is likely to lie, even if you have not run an analysis yet and have no data of your own.
- DE, AT, CH by industry
- Germany also by federal state
- Official data from Eurostat and Destatis
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Gender Pay Gap Benchmark
Find out where your gender pay gap is likely to lie, even if you have not run an analysis yet and have no data of your own.
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Coverage
- Germany, Austria, Switzerlandby NACE section
- Regional depthFor Germany, also by federal state
- ClassificationTypical range across companies and a structure-adjusted expected value
Data basis
Official figures, not estimates
The benchmark works exclusively with open official aggregates. No customer data is processed and no company data is stored. You only enter your own percentage and immediately see how it compares with the structure.
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Templates and overviews
21 documents for implementation, organised by topic, as PDFs to download and share.21 documents as PDFs, sorted by topic.
Employers
Meet your obligations, prepare data and communicate results
Recruiting and contracts
3Information and disclosure
3Reply to a request for information
Fully meets the right to information, including the case where the minimum group size is not reached.
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Annual notice of the right to information
Covers the annual notification duty, as a circular, intranet text or payslip enclosure.
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Information for the works council
Reason, legal basis, data scope and analysis logic as the basis for consultation.
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Job evaluation and analysis
3Criteria catalogue for work of equal value
Four groups of criteria for evaluating jobs. They form the basis of every comparison group.
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Transparent pay policy
Framework for pay bands, grading and progression, disclosed to the workforce.
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Data template for the pay analysis
Mandatory fields, accepted formats and sample rows for an analysis without follow-up questions.
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Reporting and evidence
3Pay report under Article 9
Structure of the report to the monitoring body with all required indicators.
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Joint pay assessment
Process for the joint assessment with employee representatives from an unexplained gap of 5%.
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Reporting timeline
Thresholds of 100, 150 and 250 employees with first reporting date and subsequent cycle.
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Employees
Exercise your right to information and understand the answer
Requesting information
4Request for information
Model letter with all mandatory details so that the request is formally valid.
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Follow-up on an incomplete answer
For answers that leave out information, with reference to the specific entitlement.
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Reminder after the deadline
A friendly reminder once the three-month deadline has passed, setting a new deadline.
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Request via the works council
Exercising the right to information through employee representatives.
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Understanding the answer
3Guide to reading a pay information reply
What median, comparison group and minimum group size mean in the reply.
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Information sheet for applicants
What information you can expect during the application process and which question is not permitted.
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Overview of your rights
All rights under the Directive at a glance, with deadlines and points of contact.
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More than a benchmark?
The benchmark gives you a first indication based on official industry data. For a robust statement about your company, our Pay Gap Report analyses your own pay data.
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