Pay setting and pay progression
Last reviewed 2026-10-16
Article 6: workers can see the criteria for pay, pay levels and pay progression. Member States may exempt employers with fewer than 50 workers from the progression part.
Article 6
What must be easy to find
Article 6 requires employers to make easily accessible to their workers the criteria used to determine pay, pay levels and pay progression. Those criteria are the same kind of objective, gender-neutral criteria Article 4 describes.
The small-employer option
Member States may exempt employers with fewer than 50 workers from the obligation related to pay progression. That exemption is optional for the Member State and, if used, is about progression criteria, not about Article 5 applicant information or Article 7’s right to information.
Related
Source
Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency (adopted 2023-05-10)
Update log
- 2026-10-16 — First published from Article 6 of Directive (EU) 2023/970.
Informational only. This is not legal advice and not a statement of national law. Statutory claims cite Directive (EU) 2023/970 and carry a last-reviewed date. A Member State duty exists only when that State’s law says so. See the country pages for a dated status snapshot.