Availability and transparency of salary information

The information on the salary offered (or salary range) is available in job announcements

Review of regulations, instructions, and practice of job announcements to verify if information on salaries is available for the candidates for the public service. Additional verification will be done by reviewing a sample of public service job announcements selected for the verification of the recruitment processes (under Principle 9). If recruitment files do not include relevant announcements published (so it cannot be determined if they included this information), the twenty most recent announcements available on the recruitment portal are analysed instead.

The general information on salary levels (salary scale) is available on an official website

Availability of salary scale(s) / salary levels as defined in the regulations and their findability.

Availability of information on actual salaries in the public service

Review of government websites (central public service human resource management co-ordination unit, government portal, ministries responsible for finance, national statistical office or open data portal, etc.) to verify if information on actual salaries paid to public servants is available (not salary scales, but total remuneration – monthly or annual). It is not expected that salary of identifiable individuals is provided (although it may be the case depending on the national legislation), but information about the average or median or maximum and minimum salary per group of positions (levels) and per institution should be easily available. It is requested the link to the website where the information is located and a findability test is performed. Centralised, aggregated (per types of institution) and disaggregated (per institution) information is required.

Statistical information on remuneration is presented in the annual report on public service

Review of the annual report on public service. The annual report on the public service contains a section on salaries with statistical information on public service remuneration. Actual salaries (total remuneration) paid in the period covered by the report should be presented per groups, categories, types of institutions and other relevant classification used in the public service legislation. Comparison with the previous year(s) and the national economy is expected.