The index · 2026-08

Jobs that hide the pay.

Every month we scan live job ads across six countries and count a simple thing: does the ad state the money, or not. Numerator, denominator and method below — take the CSV and check us.

Worst: Dubai & UAE — 92% hide payBest: UK — 54% show pay

The league nobody wants to top

Share of scanned ads that state pay in any usable form, all sectors and sources pooled — sorted worst first.

Dubai & UAE

8% show pay · 19 of 228 ads

New Zealand

23% show pay · 100 of 440 ads

Canada

29% show pay · 127 of 440 ads

Ireland

47% show pay · 112 of 240 ads

Australia

48% show pay · 211 of 440 ads

54% show pay · 239 of 440 ads

Every cell, with its denominator

Country	Sector	Source	Scanned	Showed pay	% shown
Dubai & UAE	Trades & construction	Careerjet	120	7	6%
Dubai & UAE	Health & care	Careerjet	40	10	25%
Dubai & UAE	Hospitality	Careerjet	40	0	0%
Dubai & UAE	Driving & logistics	Careerjet	28	2	7%
Australia	Trades & construction	Adzuna	50	27	54%
Australia	Trades & construction	Careerjet	120	44	37%
Australia	Health & care	Adzuna	50	14	28%
Australia	Health & care	Careerjet	40	24	60%
Australia	Hospitality	Adzuna	50	50	100%
Australia	Hospitality	Careerjet	40	17	43%
Australia	Driving & logistics	Adzuna	50	18	36%
Australia	Driving & logistics	Careerjet	40	17	43%
Canada	Trades & construction	Adzuna	50	8	16%
Canada	Trades & construction	Careerjet	120	46	38%
Canada	Health & care	Adzuna	50	20	40%
Canada	Health & care	Careerjet	40	11	28%
Canada	Hospitality	Adzuna	50	0	0%
Canada	Hospitality	Careerjet	40	15	38%
Canada	Driving & logistics	Adzuna	50	0	0%
Canada	Driving & logistics	Careerjet	40	27	68%
UK	Trades & construction	Adzuna	50	1	2%
UK	Trades & construction	Careerjet	120	97	81%
UK	Health & care	Adzuna	50	1	2%
UK	Health & care	Careerjet	40	35	88%
UK	Hospitality	Adzuna	50	40	80%
UK	Hospitality	Careerjet	40	4	10%
UK	Driving & logistics	Adzuna	50	43	86%
UK	Driving & logistics	Careerjet	40	18	45%
Ireland	Trades & construction	Careerjet	120	66	55%
Ireland	Health & care	Careerjet	40	10	25%
Ireland	Hospitality	Careerjet	40	22	55%
Ireland	Driving & logistics	Careerjet	40	14	35%
New Zealand	Trades & construction	Adzuna	50	4	8%
New Zealand	Trades & construction	Careerjet	120	35	29%
New Zealand	Health & care	Adzuna	50	8	16%
New Zealand	Health & care	Careerjet	40	21	53%
New Zealand	Hospitality	Adzuna	50	10	20%
New Zealand	Hospitality	Careerjet	40	12	30%
New Zealand	Driving & logistics	Adzuna	50	3	6%
New Zealand	Driving & logistics	Careerjet	40	7	18%

Download the CSV (2026-08) Compare pay by country

Free to publish with a credit and a link: “Source: jobsbrio.com hidden-pay index, 2026-08”.

Method, limits, and why some numbers surprise

An ad "shows pay" when our extraction engine finds a usable figure: a typed salary field from the source API (machine-predicted salaries excluded), or a day/hourly/monthly/annual figure stated in the ad text.
Ads deduplicated by URL or provider id within each country+source cell. Careerjet: up to 2 result pages per search term. Adzuna: one page of 50 per sector. Cells under 20 ads are dropped, country rollups under 100 ads are dropped.
Search terms per cell are listed in the data — the same terms our job boards run.
Why a source can score low in a country where ads “show salaries”: machine-estimated salaries are exactly what we exclude — an algorithm’s guess is not an employer telling you the money. Some feeds carry mostly estimated figures, and they score accordingly.
Two sources (one for AE/IE), English-language searches, keyword samples rather than full-market crawls. This measures the slice of the market a jobseeker actually searches, not every posting in existence.

Scanned 2026-08-05. Next release: monthly. The extraction engine is the same one that gates every job on our boards.

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