Salary Disclosure Ranges From 0% to 100% by Source, and Most of the Gap Is Real

Bars scaled to 100%

Limited to sources whose stored description is long enough to rule out the truncation bug this site has already corrected once. Two shorter-text sources are excluded; see the full table below.

Disclosure is the share of active postings from that source with a stored numeric salary. Median stored description length is the median character count of the raw posting we retain. A source is excluded from the headline ranking only when it combines low disclosure with short stored text, the specific combination that produced a false zero for Apple in an earlier correction on this site; high disclosure on short text (Reed, Adzuna) is not suspect, since truncation can only hide a number that is present, never invent one.

Source: Seeker job corpus, 342,581 active job postings, snapshot 2026-09-05. seekerscore.com/insights/salary-disclosure-by-source-2026

We checked our own failure mode before publishing this

This site has already published a correction for exactly this kind of measurement: a stored description too short to contain the salary line produced a false near-zero for Apple. Before ranking sources by disclosure, we pulled the median stored description length for every source alongside its disclosure rate. Most sources store 5,000 to 6,400 characters, long enough that a missing salary is a real absence, not a truncation artifact. Two sources, Apple and Oracle Cloud, store meaningfully less, and we are excluding both from the headline numbers rather than assume the earlier fix fully resolved it.

The real spread is still enormous

Among the sources we trust, disclosure runs from USAJobs at 100.0%, a legal requirement for federal postings, down to Kaiser Permanente at 0.0% on a median description of 5,239 characters and Amazon at 0.7% on 6,243 characters. Both of those low numbers sit on plenty of stored text, so the absence is real: these employers are not stating a number, not that we failed to capture one.

Short text does not always mean a hidden number

Reed and Adzuna both store under 1,000 characters on average, shorter than Apple's, and both show high disclosure, 80.2% and 46.2%. That is the control this analysis needed: truncation can only ever hide a salary that is present, it cannot manufacture one, so a short-text source with high disclosure is not a sign of a problem. It is a source that puts the salary early enough in the posting to survive truncation regardless.

What this means if you are trying to see the salary before applying

Which board or careers page you are looking at predicts disclosure far more than what role you are searching for. A federal posting or a Reed listing will very likely show you a number. An Amazon or Kaiser Permanente posting almost certainly will not, and that appears to be a real policy rather than a gap in what we can show you.

How we measured it (and what we did not claim)

Disclosure is the share of each source's active postings with a non-null stored salary figure, restricted to the 14 sources with at least 2,000 active postings. We are not claiming this reflects every employer on a given source, only the aggregate rate for that source in our corpus today. We are also not claiming Apple's or Oracle Cloud's true rates are as low as measured; we are explicitly declining to state a number for either until we can confirm the truncation issue from an earlier correction no longer applies to them.

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