Pay transparency in Sweden
No bill yet
Sweden has not transposed the Directive. A draft bill was referred to the Council on Legislation in January 2026 (proposed start 1 July 2026, later pushed to 1 January 2027), but on 26 March 2026 the government announced it does not currently intend to submit a bill and will seek postponement and renegotiation at EU level. In June 2026 it asked the Equality Ombudsman (DO) to continue preparatory work.
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 duty to state pay in job ads or before the interview. The shelved January 2026 proposal would have required pay or pay-range information for applicants and banned questions about previous pay.
- Asking about previous pay
- No legal ban yet
- Workers' right to information
- No new Directive-based right to information is in force. Existing Discrimination Act rules on active measures (annual pay survey) continue to apply.
- Pay reporting
- No gender pay gap reporting to an authority yet. Under the existing Discrimination Act, all employers must carry out an annual pay survey (lönekartläggning), documented in writing by employers with 10 or more employees.
- Penalties
- Not yet specified.
Not verified: No government statement found after September 2026 (Sweden held a general election in September 2026); the position may have changed. The pay-survey rules come from the 2016 bill and guides; the current wording of Ch. 3 of the Discrimination Act was not re-checked.
4% of job ads in Sweden state pay
849 of 20,646 ads on employer career sites and applicant tracking systems in the last month; 4% for tech-related titles (64 of 1,594). Measured on 11/11/2026 via Active Jobs DB; includes pay read from the ad text.
IT salaries in SwedenSources
- Regeringen vill omförhandla lönetransparensdirektivet · Regeringskansliet (Arbetsmarknadsdepartementet) · 26/03/2026
- Lagrådsremiss: Genomförande av lönetransparensdirektivet · Regeringskansliet
- Vad är lönetransparensdirektivet? · Diskrimineringsombudsmannen (DO) · 21/07/2026
- Prop. 2015/16:135 Ett övergripande ramverk för aktiva åtgärder · Sveriges riksdag