Only 2.4% of U.S. Job Listings Disclose Salary

The TBJB May 2026 Salary Transparency Report. We analyzed 174,752 active U.S. job listings in our database. 4,172 of them — just 2.4% — publish a salary range publicly. Major enterprise employers including AbbVie, Johnson & Johnson, Walmart, Target, and the City of New York disclose zero.

The headline number

Out of the 174,752 active U.S. job listings in TBJB's database as of May 23, 2026, just 4,172 include a published salary range. That's a transparency rate of 2.4%.

Some context: salary-transparency laws now require disclosure in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. The fact that the headline rate is still below 3% nationally suggests two things: (1) most listings cover roles posted from states without disclosure laws, and (2) even where laws apply, compliance is uneven — many employers comply via a legally-defensive range so wide it's effectively meaningless, while others quietly omit a range and accept the risk.

Major enterprise employers disclose nothing

Across pharma, retail HQ, healthcare, government, and commercial real estate, the recognizable enterprise brands hiring at scale right now disclose salary on essentially none of their U.S. listings:

Methodology: counted listings where salary_min is published by the employer (not inferred by TBJB's regression model from job text and similar roles). The list above is filtered to recognizable enterprise employers; quick-service restaurants, regional grocers, and franchise auto-parts retailers also account for tens of thousands of additional zero-disclosure listings in our dataset, but the focus here is on the employer brands most relevant to professional candidates.

Smaller employers lead on transparency

The companies with the highest disclosure rates aren't the household names — they're mid-sized employers, many in tech and healthcare, where transparency is now table stakes for recruiting competitive candidates:

Note: these are mid-size employers (20-220 active roles each). Among employers with 1,000+ active U.S. listings, none reach a 50% disclosure rate. The cutoff between "discloses everything" and "discloses nothing" appears to fall sharply at mid-market scale.

Why this matters for job seekers

Candidates with full salary information apply more selectively, spend less time on misaligned interviews, and negotiate from a higher anchor. Studies of disclosure-law impact show ranges of $5K–$25K in additional first-year compensation when listings disclose salary upfront vs. negotiating blind.

If you're searching: prioritize listings with disclosed pay. At TBJB, you can sort by salary and our search defaults to surfacing higher-paid roles first; we also impute salaries via a regression model for listings without disclosure, so candidates have at least an estimated range to evaluate.