Pay Transparency Self-Check
The EU Pay Transparency Directive is reshaping how European companies handle pay. These eight questions give you a first, rough read on where your company stands - answered from memory, in under five minutes.
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Answer from memory - "partly" is a fair answer. This is a rough self-read, not a scored assessment and not legal advice.
Your read
Mostly yes: the foundations look like they are in place.
On a rough self-read, you are further along than most companies your size. At this stage the gaps that matter tend to be the invisible ones: whether your ranges and criteria would hold up when a real employee asks about them, whether your data is as clean as it feels from memory, and whether the pieces fit together consistently. Look first at your "partly" answers - and at information requests and reporting data, where confidence and reality diverge most often.
A mixed picture: some pieces in place, real gaps next to them.
This is where most 50-500-employee companies actually are. The order of work matters more than the amount: pay criteria, job levels and salary ranges are the load-bearing pieces - hiring transparency and request-handling are hard to fix credibly until those exist. Look first at whichever of those three foundations you answered "no" on. And treat "partly" answers with suspicion: they usually mean something exists on paper but has not been tested by a real request.
Mostly no: you are at the beginning.
An honest place to be, and a common one. Do not start with the visible edges - job-ad ranges, request processes. Start with the foundations they depend on: how pay decisions are made, a workable level structure, and salary ranges you can stand behind. Built in that order, the rest follows; built in the reverse order, work gets redone. The real question is not whether you have gaps - it is which of them carry legal exposure now and which can wait for your country's law.
This self-check is a rough self-read from memory - it cannot tell you which gaps carry legal exposure or what to tackle first. The scored version - a readiness scorecard across all eight dimensions, a top-5 action plan ordered by exposure, and a 30-minute walkthrough call - is the Pay Transparency Quick Check: fixed price from €2,400 plus VAT, scored report within five working days.