Community Contributions (6/29)
How Often Is Pay Information Included in Job Postings in South Carolina?
Ishrat Alam, Senior Data Scientist at the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce
June 29, 2026
Welcome to Community Contributions, a blog series. These posts are written by National Labor Exchange (NLx) Research Hub community members, providing insight into what our users are doing with the NLx job posting data. This series will give you a glimpse of who the NLx Research Hub community is and how job posting data is incorporated into their work.
Our first series of Community Contributions posts highlights the Parsed Data Pilot the NLx Research Hub conducted April-May 2026. For this pilot, the NLx Research Hub utilized Amazon’s Nova Lite model to parse out pay information, degree mentions, remote status, part time status, and benefits mentions from 31.5 million job descriptions from 2024 and 2025. These blog posts highlight what pilot users discovered in their exploration of the parsed data. For more details on the parsing process, please reach out to the NLx Research Hub team, and stay tuned for more announcements on parsed data.
Pay information is an important factor for many jobseekers when browsing job postings and deciding whether to apply. Research shows that pay information in job postings varies across states. This blog post focuses on South Carolina, analyzing job postings from 2024 and 2025 to understand how often employers included pay information and whether those patterns varied by education requirement and occupation group. We found that 50% of job postings in South Carolina from that period included pay information, slightly below the national average of 55%.
NLx Research Hub data from 2024-2025
Additionally, we found that pay information in job postings varied by minimum education requirement. Job postings requiring a bachelor’s or master’s degree included pay information over 60% of the time. However, job postings requiring an associate degree included pay information only 25% of the time.
NLx Research Hub data from 2024-2025
Differences across occupation groups were even larger. Computer and mathematical occupations, as well as healthcare occupations, are among the fastest-growing occupation groups in South Carolina. However, these two groups tell very different stories when it comes to how often employers include pay information in job postings. Computer and mathematical occupations included pay information 76% of the time, while healthcare practitioner and technical occupations came in at 37%, and healthcare support occupations just at 23%.
Overall, these findings suggest that jobseekers across occupations and educational backgrounds experience different levels of access to pay information in job postings. More research is needed to understand what drives these differences and what they mean for jobseekers in South Carolina.
About the Author
Ishrat Alam is a Senior Data Scientist at the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce. She is an Epidemiologist by training and received her doctorate degree from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
