eJobs: 3 out of 10 applications registered this year on eJobs.co.uk went to jobs that had the salary advertised in the job advert

* Candidates are increasingly starting to look for jobs with the salary advertised. 30% of the applications registered on eJobs.co.uk go to jobs with the salary advertised in the job advert. Candidates aged 18-24 and over 60 are most interested in the salary   As the labour market approaches the moment of salary transparency, more and more candidates want to find out how much they could earn before applying for a job. Data for the period January to May 2025, for example, shows that 3 out of 10 applications registered this year on eJobs.co.uk went to jobs that had the salary displayed in the job advert.   "The percentage has to do, on the one hand, with the fact that employees and candidates already know that salary information will soon become public and, on the other hand, because they feel very strongly the need for stability including in terms of salaries. When they are looking for a job, they want to know from the very first stage if a particular job could fulfil all their criteria in order to stay as long as possible in that position", says Roxana Draghici, Head of Sales at eJobs, the largest online recruitment platform in Romania.   Candidates in the 18-24 and 60+ age brackets are the most interested. While overall, 30 per cent of applications go for jobs with an advertised salary, for these two age groups the percentage is over 35 per cent. On the other hand, for candidates in the 35 - 44 and 45 - 54 age brackets, the percentage drops to 25% and 26% respectively.   While a job that has a confidential salary advertised receives, on average, 22 applications from candidates, a job for which the salary is advertised attracts, on average, 35 applications. However, since the start of the year so far, of the more than 100,000 jobs posted, only 39,000 have had their salary published. At 39% of the total, however, this is not an increase on the average of recent years, when the share of adverts with a salary advertised has varied between 35% and 40%. "We are still talking about ads for predominantly entry-level or blue-collar jobs, while positions for specialists, seniors or managers remain in a zone of confidentiality that employers are not yet ready to abandon," says Roxana Draghici.   The areas with the highest level of transparency are retail, services, transport/logistics, call-centre/BPO, tourism, food industry and construction. According to data from Salario, the eJobs-branded salary comparator, the national average net salaries for these areas are as follows: 3,500 lei for retail, 3,800 lei for services, 5,000 lei for transport/logistics, 4,000 lei for call-centre/BPO, 4,000 lei for tourism, 4,000 lei for the food industry and 5,500 lei for construction.   There are currently 22,000 jobs available on eJobs.ro. Out of these, 8,300 have a posted salary.