Pay transparency in Croatia
Draft stage
The Ministry of Labour presented a draft amendment to the Labour Act on 2 November 2026 and put it to public consultation on e-Savjetovanja (reported to run until 2 December 2026). Employers would get about six months to adapt after entry into force; application from 2027 is expected but not fixed.
Draft · legal review pending, not yet published.
Last checked: 10/11/2026. This overview is not legal advice. Laws change; the linked legal text is what counts.
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- Job ads
- No rule yet. No pay disclosure duty for job ads is in force. Under the draft, applicants would have to receive the starting pay or pay range before or at the interview; a job-ad requirement has not been reported.
- Asking about previous pay
- Not verified
- Workers' right to information
- Not yet in force. The draft would let workers request their own pay and the average pay of women and men in the same job category; clauses forbidding workers to discuss pay would become void.
- Pay reporting
- No reporting duty yet. The draft would require employers with more than 100 employees to report pay data via a national pay transparency system run by FINA (250+ annually, smaller in-scope employers every three years).
- Penalties
- The draft provides for misdemeanour fines; amounts not verified.
Not verified: The consultation page did not render, so the draft text was not read directly; consultation end date (2 December 2026), pay history ban, response deadline, first reporting dates and fine amounts come from secondary sources only.
23% of job ads in Croatia state pay
248 of 1,089 ads on employer career sites and applicant tracking systems in the last month; 25% for tech-related titles (27 of 109). Measured on 11/11/2026 via Active Jobs DB; includes pay read from the ad text.
Sources
- e-Savjetovanja: Nacrt prijedloga zakona o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o radu · Government of the Republic of Croatia (e-Savjetovanja) · 02/11/2026
- Predstavljene izmjene Zakona o radu koje donose veću transparentnost plaća · EDUS (edusinfo.hr) · 03/11/2026
- Plaće više neće biti tajna, a radnici dobivaju nova prava oko godišnjih odmora · Glas Istre · 02/11/2026
- Croatia pay transparency tracker · Evenpay · 03/11/2026