App Jobs Salary Transparency Index · As of 2026-11-06
We read 1,872 live job ads from 183 companies behind Germany's most-downloaded apps, straight from their own hiring systems. 159 of them name a salary, a pay range or an hourly rate.
Among professional roles, sales (12.6%) and data & analytics (9.8%) state the pay most often. Product management ads least often, at 1.8%.
Professional roles (n = 1,603), role from the job title. Groups under 30 ads are left out.
Training pay is often set by collective agreements and printed year by year ("1st year: €1,139"). Once a job needs a degree or experience, the number disappears.
168 ads ask applicants for their salary expectation. Only 17 of them state a salary themselves. Each square is one of those ads; yellow means it states the pay.
Companies with at least five ads in the sample. Only 5 state the pay in every ad, 25 in some of them. Each company page shows how often that company states the pay. All companies →
According to Indeed, only 12.5% of job ads in Germany stated a salary in May 2026, and 5% in IT. In the UK it is 56%.
Indeed counts ads on its platform; we count ads in the companies’ own hiring systems. Index Research measures about 22% with a broader definition, so read the comparison as an order of magnitude, not an exact gap.
English-language ads state the pay as often as German ones (7.3% vs 6.3%, professional roles).
All ads, by the company’s headquarters city. Cities with 60+ ads. One large employer can move a city’s number a lot.
Median across 94 professional ads with an annual figure. 76% give a range rather than a single number.
| Role | Ads | Median low | Median high |
|---|---|---|---|
| All professional roles | 94 | €54,500 | €71,500 |
| Sales | 23 | €50,000 | €60,000 |
| Developer | 16 | €74,000 | €91,500 |
| Marketing | 12 | €65,000 | €72,500 |
| Data & analytics | 11 | €65,000 | €85,000 |
| Other roles | 10 | €37,500 | €42,000 |
| People & HR | 9 | €62,000 | €85,000 |
Small samples. This shows what companies publish, not what the market pays.
Under the EU Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970), applicants have a right to the starting pay or its range: in the job ad, before the interview or in another way. Employers may no longer ask about your current salary.
Not legal advice. Sources: EUR-Lex; Bundestag hib, 16 Jul 2026; Personalwirtschaft, 19 Jun 2026.
All live job ads at the companies behind Germany's most-downloaded apps, read from their hiring systems (Greenhouse, Personio, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workday and career pages), as of 2026-11-06. We analysed 1,872 ads with full text, at most 60 per company. An ad counts when it names a concrete euro amount for pay: annual, monthly or hourly, a range or a minimum ("ab 2.700 € brutto"), or a salary field in the hiring system. Benefits, budgets and bonuses don't count, and neither does a reference to a collective agreement without an amount (another 22 ads). Detection is automatic and was checked by hand on samples. Ads without full text are not included.
At German app companies 8.5% of job ads state a salary, 6.9% for professional roles (as of 2026-11-06). Indeed puts all of Germany at 12.5% (May 2026).
Not in Germany so far. The EU Pay Transparency Directive requires that applicants learn the starting pay or range, but also allows sharing it before the interview. In Austria a salary in job ads has been mandatory since 2011.
The deadline was 7 June 2026. Germany missed it, and a law is expected in 2027. No exact date has been set.
All 159 ads that state the pay are listed at berlinappjobs.com/en/jobs/with-salary/.