Conference and meeting room finder Meetingo have found 71 per cent of job ads advertised without a salary. The statistic is based on analysis of 100,000 UK jobs advertised from the job site Indeed.com.
The cities that were the least transparent when displaying salary were Aberdeen, which had only approximately half the jobs with salary listed (51 per cent), followed by Derry at 56 per cent and Belfast at 57 per cent. Meetingo found that the UK cities that were most transparent at advertising salaries were Leicester, Derby and Nottingham, in all of which more than 4 in 5 job ads (81 per cent) displayed a salary.
The salary transparency is also significantly higher in Manchester 79 per cent or London at 75 per cent. The analysis also looked at the cities with the highest average advertised salaries. These were St Albans and Derry at £30,000 for both. On the other hand, the locations with the lowest average advertised salaries were Armagh, Newry and Bangor, at an average of £23,000 for all three, this is £2,000 less than the overall average for all UK at £25,000.
The job sectors most likely to display salary were:
• Community & Social Care (92 per cent)
• Healthcare (87 per cent)
• Cleaning & Ground Maintenance (87 per cent)
The job sectors least likely to display salary were:
• Media, Arts & Design (46 per cent)
• Architecture & Engineering (46 per cent)
• Technology (52 per cent)
• Legal (56 per cent)
Meetingo also found the job sectors with the highest salaries on average were in Tech, (£51,000) followed by Science and Research (£38,000) and Architecture and Engineering (£38,000). The lowest-paid sector averages were Cleaning and Ground Maintenance (£21,000), followed by Food and Beverage (£22,000) and finally Travel, Attractions and Events (£22,000).
Jon Abrahams, managing director at Meetingo said: “We all know how frustrating it is when we are applying for jobs and find the job of our dreams, only to realise the salary isn’t included in the advertisement.
“We found it very surprising after looking at average salaries in different UK cities that London only ranked third highest at an average of £29,000, this was behind St Albans and Derry where the average salary is nearly £30,000 for both cities.”
