Ask any job seeker in Finland what frustrates them most about the hiring process, and salary opacity comes up quickly. Most job listings simply do not say what they pay — leaving candidates to guess, negotiate blind, or spend hours on interviews for roles that turn out to be below their floor. We analysed 16,732 active Finnish job listings from the past 90 days to measure exactly how transparent Finnish employers are about pay — and the results vary dramatically by field, seniority, and work arrangement. With the EU Pay Transparency Directive's transposition deadline now just three months away, the current numbers also serve as a baseline for how much the market is about to change.
~1 in 4
Finnish listings include a salary figure
4,440
listings with salary disclosed (of 16,732)
66%
of disclosed salaries are monthly (vs 32% hourly)

Source: jobcrawls.com · last 90 days · March 2026

Disclosure Rate by Field

The headline figure of around 1 in 4 hides enormous variation between fields. Research leads with 62% of listings including salary — roughly nine times higher than Automotive at the bottom. The fields most likely to show their numbers tend to be those with strong public sector presence or established collective agreements, where salary transparency is already a cultural norm.
Highest Salary Disclosure Rates by Field

Share of listings including salary · Finland · last 90 days

Research
62% (n=68)
Cleaning
43%
Education
41%
Healthcare
40%
Legal
39% (n=49)
Logistics
29%
Human Resources
28%
Disclosure rate = listings with salary ÷ total listings per field. Fields with fewer than 50 listings noted. Source: jobcrawls.com
Lowest Salary Disclosure Rates by Field

Share of listings including salary · Finland · last 90 days

Automotive
7%
Marketing
16%
Construction
17%
Technology
19%
Data
19% (n=48)
Finance
21%
Last 90 days · Finland only. Bar widths relative to Automotive (lowest). Source: jobcrawls.com
The Data field anomaly. Data roles — data analysts, engineers, and scientists — are Finland's most remote-friendly field, with around 87% of listings offering remote or hybrid work. Yet only 19% of Data listings disclose salary, one of the lowest rates in the market. Candidates targeting these roles face a double information gap: they know they can work from anywhere, but not what they will be paid to do so.
Technology tells a similar story. It is Finland's largest hiring field with over 3,200 listings in the past 90 days, yet only 1 in 5 disclose salary. The sector's reliance on individual negotiation and competitive benchmarking against global talent pools makes Finnish tech employers reluctant to anchor themselves to a number in a public listing.

Disclosure Rate by Seniority

The seniority pattern is counterintuitive and consistent: junior roles are more likely to include salary information than senior ones. Junior listings disclose at 33%, while senior roles sit at 23% — a ten percentage point gap that has remained stable.
Salary Disclosure Rate by Seniority Level

Junior roles are more transparent than senior ones · Finland · last 90 days

Junior
33% (n=1,171)
Mid-Level
30% (n=6,352)
Intern
30% (n=760)
Manager
27% (n=547)
Senior
23% (n=475)
Disclosure rate = listings with salary ÷ total at that seniority level. Unclassified listings excluded. Source: jobcrawls.com
One explanation is public sector composition. Healthcare, Education, and Social Care roles fill predominantly junior and mid-level positions, and public employers are more accustomed to publishing salary bands tied to collective agreements. Senior private-sector hires, by contrast, are often handled through executive search or direct outreach, where pay is negotiated individually and rarely advertised. The higher the seniority, the more salary becomes a conversation rather than a listing field.

Disclosure Rate by Work Arrangement

By work arrangement
Share disclosing salary · last 90 days
Hybrid
35%
Onsite
26%
Remote
23%
Onsite n=14,204 · Hybrid n=1,446 · Remote n=889
Salary denomination
Of disclosed salaries · last 90 days
Monthly
66%
Hourly
32%
Annual
2%
n=4,440 salary-disclosing listings
Hybrid listings are the most transparent at 35% — the field-and-seniority profile of hybrid roles tends to skew toward knowledge work and mid-to-senior levels, where employers competing for flexible talent have more incentive to show their numbers. Remote listings are the least transparent at 23%, which is worth flagging for international job seekers: many remote listings targeting Finland come from companies operating across multiple pay markets, and they may deliberately avoid publishing a salary to preserve negotiating flexibility across geographies. The salary denomination split — 66% monthly, 32% hourly — reflects the underlying structure of the Finnish labour market. Monthly salaries dominate professional and white-collar roles; hourly rates are standard in healthcare, cleaning, construction, and other shift-based work where pay is governed by collective agreements.

The EU Pay Transparency Directive: Three Months Away

Deadline: June 2026 This is about to change significantly
EU member states, including Finland, are required to transpose the Pay Transparency Directive into national law by June 2026 — now less than three months away. The directive requires employers to provide salary information to job applicants before the first interview, either in the job listing itself or on request. It also bans employers from asking candidates about their pay history. The current figure of around 27% salary disclosure is the baseline. Once the directive takes effect, the expectation is that a substantially higher share of listings will include pay information — either proactively in the listing or disclosed when a candidate requests it before interviewing. For job seekers, the practical implication is twofold. In the short term — the next few months — the market remains as opaque as it has been. The strategies below still apply. Once enforcement begins, candidates will have a legal right to salary information before investing time in an interview process, which changes the negotiating dynamic significantly for roles that currently reveal nothing.
Finland's implementation is still being finalised at time of writing. The directive sets a floor, not a ceiling — some Finnish employers have already begun disclosing salary voluntarily in anticipation of the requirement, particularly larger companies with HR functions actively monitoring EU employment law. The fields with the lowest current disclosure rates — Automotive, Marketing, Construction, and Technology — will face the most significant adjustment.

What This Means for Your Job Search

  • 1
    Target fields that show their cards Healthcare, Education, Research, and Cleaning publish salary ranges in 40–62% of listings — well above the market average. If you have transferable skills into these fields, you will negotiate from a much stronger information position.
  • 2
    In opaque fields, use listed salaries as a floor The roughly 19–21% of Technology, Finance, and Construction employers who do publish tend to be doing so competitively. Use those numbers to anchor your asks in conversations with employers who do not publish — they are competing for the same candidates.
  • 3
    Remote listings require extra salary research At 23% disclosure — the lowest of any work arrangement — remote roles leave the most information on the table. Budget extra time for the salary conversation, and come prepared with market data before you get to offer stage.
  • 4
    After June 2026, you can ask before you interview Once Finland transposes the EU Pay Transparency Directive, candidates will have a legal right to salary information before the first interview. If you are applying for roles now with a long hiring timeline, this right may be in place before your process concludes.
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About the Data

Salary figures and disclosure rates on this page are based on 16,732 active Finnish job listings from the past 90 days, crawled by jobcrawls.com directly from company career pages and Työmarkkinatori. Disclosure rate is calculated as listings where a salary period is present divided by total listings in that field, seniority level, or work arrangement group. Fields with fewer than 50 total listings are noted. The overall 26.5% disclosure rate reflects listings where employers chose to include salary information — it does not capture employers who disclose salary on request but not in the listing itself.
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Finland's most comprehensive job market data. Based on 16,732 active listings as of March 2026. Data updated regularly at jobcrawls.com.