Pay transparency in Norway
No bill yet
Norway is in the EEA, but the directive has not been incorporated into the EEA Agreement. EFTA's EEA-Lex lists it as an act under scrutiny by the EEA EFTA states, and the Norwegian government said in November 2025 it was not incorporated. There is therefore no transposition deadline for Norway yet. The Ministry of Culture and Equality is preparing implementation, but no consultation paper or bill has been published.
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 rule requires pay information in job ads. Requirements will depend on EEA incorporation and Norwegian implementing legislation; the timing is open.
- Asking about previous pay
- No legal ban yet
- Workers' right to information
- Under § 32 of the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Act, an employee who suspects pay discrimination can demand written information from the employer about the pay level and pay criteria of the comparison employee(s).
- Pay reporting
- Under the activity and reporting duty (§§ 26, 26a), all public employers and private employers with more than 50 employees (20–50 if a labour-market party in the company requests it) must map pay by gender every second year. They must report on equality in the annual report or another public document, including anonymised pay-mapping results.
- Penalties
- Not verified. The Anti-Discrimination Tribunal (Diskrimineringsnemnda) enforces the act under the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud Act; the specific sanctions for breaches of §§ 26–26a were not checked.
Not verified: The regjeringen.no page blocked automated access; its content (not incorporated as of 20 Nov 2025) is known only from a search snippet and Simployer. The EEA-Lex page does not clearly mark the current status category. No source after mid-2026 confirmed whether a draft EEA Joint Committee Decision exists. The Simployer article reflects status as of June 2026 (no exact date). Sanctions were not verified.
8% of job ads in Norway state pay
349 of 4,462 ads on employer career sites and applicant tracking systems in the last month; 6% for tech-related titles (16 of 282). Measured on 11/11/2026 via Active Jobs DB; includes pay read from the ad text.
IT salaries in NorwaySources
- Lov om likestilling og forbud mot diskriminering (§§ 26, 26a, 32) · Lovdata · 16/06/2017
- EEA-Lex factsheet 32023L0970 · EFTA
- Om likelønnsdirektivet · Regjeringen (Kultur- og likestillingsdepartementet) · 20/11/2025
- Hva er status for likelønnsdirektivet i Norge? · Simployer
- Pay Transparency Directive: EU countries miss the deadline · NHH Norwegian School of Economics · 23/06/2026