Country guide
Pay transparency in Croatia
What the EU Pay Transparency Directive means for employers in Croatia, based on its national transposition — status, thresholds, the joint-assessment trigger, and where to file.
No transposing act adopted as at NN 97/2026 (2 September 2026), established from Narodne novine's own full-year act indexes for 2024–2026 with a positive control; Croatia has notified the Commission no measure. EU baseline applies for reporting. Croatia is NOT, however, without pay-transparency law: Zakon o radu čl. 90.b and čl. 91(6) have been in force since 1 January 2023.
Croatia has not yet transposed the directive, and the 7 June 2026 deadline has passed. The directive's own thresholds are the best guide until national law is enacted; any pre-existing national pay-reporting regime continues to apply in the meantime.
Reporting duties apply by employer size: 150 or more employees, from 2027 · Every three years (anticipated); 250 or more employees, from 2027 · Annual (anticipated); 100 or more employees, from 2031 · Every three years (anticipated). The directive's 5% trigger for a joint pay assessment applies until national law sets its own.
We have not yet confirmed from the national text whether the pay-gap figures must be published. Either way, the underlying work is the same: establish work of equal value through gender-neutral job evaluation, produce the statutory pay-gap report in the national format, and run a joint assessment where the gap is too wide.
Obligations at a glance
| Reporting threshold |
|
|---|---|
| Joint pay assessment | — |
| Public publication | Not yet confirmed |
| Competent authority | Državni inspektorat |
Frequently asked
Is the EU Pay Transparency Directive in force in Croatia?
Croatia has not yet transposed the directive, and the 7 June 2026 deadline has passed. The directive's own thresholds are the best guide until national law is enacted; any pre-existing national pay-reporting regime continues to apply in the meantime.
Which employers have to report in Croatia?
Reporting duties apply by employer size: 150 or more employees, from 2027 · Every three years (anticipated); 250 or more employees, from 2027 · Annual (anticipated); 100 or more employees, from 2031 · Every three years (anticipated).
What triggers a joint pay assessment in Croatia?
The directive's 5% trigger for a joint pay assessment applies until national law sets its own.
This guide summarises publicly available information for orientation only. It is not legal advice — confirm every figure against Croatia's own transposition text before relying on it.