Do Energy Job Postings Show the Pay?
Of 16,946 open job postings at 671 energy employers, 30% showed the pay. Where the law requires it, most do: in US states with a pay-in-postings law, 83% of postings showed pay, against 28% in states without one.
Country by country
Countries with at least 30 postings from at least 3 employers. The rest, 1,074 postings, showed pay 10% of the time.
| Where | Show pay | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| AustriaAustrian law has required job adverts to state the minimum salary since 2011 (Equal Treatment Act; senior management roles excepted). | 82% | 45 / 55 |
| Italy | 58% | 147 / 252 |
| United States | 56% | 4,089 / 7,335 |
| Canada | 33% | 165 / 501 |
| United Kingdom | 19% | 186 / 1,002 |
| SingaporeMost pay shown here comes from MyCareersFuture, the national job board, which requires a salary range on every posting. Employers’ own career sites rarely show pay. | 18% | 67 / 370 |
| Switzerland | 14% | 33 / 233 |
| Finland | 12% | 6 / 49 |
| Netherlands | 12% | 19 / 160 |
| Ireland | 11% | 6 / 53 |
| Poland | 10% | 22 / 213 |
| Australia | 9% | 14 / 153 |
| Germany | 7% | 83 / 1,146 |
| Spain | 6% | 18 / 295 |
| Sweden | 6% | 5 / 84 |
| France | 5% | 34 / 677 |
| Denmark | 4% | 6 / 157 |
| Belgium | 3% | 5 / 145 |
| Taiwan | 3% | 1 / 30 |
| Portugal | 3% | 6 / 181 |
| Norway | 3% | 1 / 31 |
| Qatar | 3% | 1 / 36 |
| Philippines | 2% | 3 / 123 |
| Japan | 2% | 2 / 92 |
| Greece | 2% | 1 / 48 |
| Mexico | 2% | 3 / 162 |
| Colombia | 2% | 1 / 57 |
| Argentina | 1% | 1 / 72 |
| India | 1% | 10 / 787 |
| Malaysia | 1% | 2 / 198 |
| Romania | 1% | 1 / 123 |
| Brazil | 1% | 1 / 132 |
| China | 0% | 0 / 228 |
| United Arab Emirates | 0% | 0 / 140 |
| Hungary | 0% | 0 / 135 |
| Czechia | 0% | 0 / 78 |
| Indonesia | 0% | 0 / 73 |
| Saudi Arabia | 0% | 0 / 58 |
| South Africa | 0% | 0 / 51 |
| Nigeria | 0% | 0 / 42 |
| Vietnam | 0% | 0 / 41 |
| Egypt | 0% | 0 / 38 |
| Kenya | 0% | 0 / 36 |
United States, state by state
1,630 US postings named no state and are left out of this table.
| Where | Show pay | Postings | Posting law |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 92% | 35 / 38 | since 1 January 2025 |
| Washington | 91% | 248 / 272 | since 1 January 2023 |
| New Jersey | 90% | 132 / 146 | since 1 June 2025 |
| Colorado | 90% | 260 / 289 | since 1 January 2021 |
| California | 84% | 888 / 1,060 | since 1 January 2023 |
| Massachusetts | 82% | 219 / 266 | since 29 October 2025 |
| Wyoming | 81% | 26 / 32 | — |
| Illinois | 81% | 224 / 276 | since 1 January 2025 |
| District of Columbia | 81% | 76 / 94 | since 30 June 2024 |
| New York | 76% | 206 / 270 | since 17 September 2023 |
| Virginia | 76% | 114 / 150 | since 1 July 2026 |
| Maryland | 72% | 78 / 109 | since 1 October 2024 |
| Oregon | 57% | 17 / 30 | — |
| Georgia | 56% | 19 / 34 | — |
| Connecticut | 55% | 34 / 62 | — |
| South Carolina | 49% | 49 / 101 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 47% | 65 / 138 | — |
| Tennessee | 43% | 13 / 30 | — |
| New Mexico | 43% | 26 / 61 | — |
| Oklahoma | 41% | 22 / 54 | — |
| Ohio | 41% | 15 / 37 | — |
| Nevada | 39% | 61 / 157 | — |
| Utah | 38% | 21 / 56 | — |
| Texas | 24% | 202 / 833 | — |
| Arizona | 19% | 25 / 132 | — |
| Michigan | 17% | 12 / 71 | — |
| Iowa | 13% | 8 / 61 | — |
| Indiana | 13% | 4 / 31 | — |
| North Carolina | 11% | 15 / 135 | — |
| Florida | 11% | 24 / 225 | — |
| West Virginia | 8% | 10 / 118 | — |
| Louisiana | 8% | 6 / 78 | — |
| Alaska | 0% | 0 / 50 | — |
Canada, province by province
| Where | Show pay | Postings | Posting law |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ontario | 59% | 63 / 107 | since 1 January 2026 |
| Quebec | 25% | 17 / 68 | — |
| Alberta | 24% | 34 / 143 | — |
| British ColumbiaA small sample: about half of these postings come from one employer. | 16% | 6 / 38 | since 1 November 2023 |
What the law says
These laws require pay, or a pay range, in the job posting itself. Most apply above an employer size.
- Colorado — since 1 January 2021; all employers.
- California — since 1 January 2023; 15+ employees.
- Washington — since 1 January 2023; 15+ employees.
- New York — since 17 September 2023; 4+ employees.
- Hawaii — since 1 January 2024; 50+ employees.
- District of Columbia — since 30 June 2024; all employers.
- Maryland — since 1 October 2024; all employers.
- Illinois — since 1 January 2025; 15+ employees.
- Minnesota — since 1 January 2025; 30+ employees.
- New Jersey — since 1 June 2025; 10+ employees.
- Vermont — since 1 July 2025; 5+ employees.
- Massachusetts — since 29 October 2025; 25+ employees.
- Virginia — since 1 July 2026; all employers.
- Maine — since 29 July 2026; 10+ employees.
- Prince Edward Island — since 1 June 2022; all employers.
- British Columbia — since 1 November 2023; all employers.
- Ontario — since 1 January 2026; 25+ employees; not for pay above CAD 200,000.
Not counted as posting laws: Connecticut (its posting requirement starts on 1 October 2026), states where pay is owed only on request (such as Nevada and Rhode Island), and city-only rules such as New York City's. The EU Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970) was due in national law by 7 June 2026, but it lets employers give pay information before the interview rather than in the posting — so European figures here are an early baseline, not a test of that law.
How this was counted
- Postings seen on the careers sites of the energy employers we track, and on energy job boards, in the 21 days to 5 October 2026. Each vacancy is counted once.
- A posting “shows pay” when its text states an amount or a range beside pay language, in any currency and for any period. The amount itself is not used here.
- Postings we could not read for pay were left out, not counted as silent: 3,915 postings from sources that give no posting text.
- Mining and metals employers were left out (2,303 postings), so this is an energy result. An earlier look at mining found the same pattern: one global miner shows pay in California and British Columbia and nowhere else.
- A country, state or province appears only with at least 30 postings from at least 3 employers, so no single employer drives a row.
- This is a broad sample of tracked employers, not a census of every energy job.
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