# Paylucent

> Paylucent is a concept in validation (no product yet): a neutral readiness review of the EU Pay Transparency Directive, Directive (EU) 2023/970, for employers with staff or applicants in the EU. The only thing on offer is a 20-minute discovery call about the concept. Not legal advice.

## Pages
- [Readiness review](https://paylucent.evolution38.tech/): what the concept would do, shown as a pay band explorer with illustrative sample data
- [US & UK employers](https://paylucent.evolution38.tech/eu-pay-transparency-directive-us-uk-employers/): whether the Directive reaches an employer based outside the EU, and what to check first
- [Checklist](https://paylucent.evolution38.tech/eu-pay-transparency-directive-checklist/): the duties by article — job ads, pay history, worker requests, pay structures, reporting
- [Pay gap reporting](https://paylucent.evolution38.tech/eu-pay-gap-reporting/): who reports, the seven indicators, the dates by headcount and the 5% joint pay assessment trigger
- [Job ads and pay range](https://paylucent.evolution38.tech/eu-pay-transparency-directive-job-ads-salary-range/): what Article 5 says about pay information for applicants, pay history questions and gender-neutral job ads, quoted from EUR-Lex
- [Pay gap reporting deadline checker](https://paylucent.evolution38.tech/eu-pay-gap-reporting-deadline-checker/): enter a headcount to see the first report date and cycle under Article 9; CSV at https://paylucent.evolution38.tech/eu-pay-gap-reporting-dates.csv

## What Paylucent is not
- Not a product. Nothing can be bought, signed up for or logged into.
- Not legal advice, and not a certification, audit or assessment of anyone's compliance.
- Not a law firm and not affiliated with the European Commission or any national authority.
- It has no customers, no case studies and no published figures. Any numbers shown in the
  interface on the home page are illustrative sample data and are labelled as such.

## Primary sources
- Directive (EU) 2023/970 (EUR-Lex): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2023/970/oj/eng
- National transposition measures (EUR-Lex): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/NIM/?uri=CELEX:32023L0970
- European Commission explainer (5 Jun 2026): https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/new-eu-rules-pay-transparency-explained-2026-06-05_en

## Optional
- [Privacy Policy](https://paylucent.evolution38.tech/privacy): what the site collects, how long it is kept and how to ask for deletion