Directive (EU) 2023/970 · AI-powered support for fair and transparent pay

From job descriptions to consultant-grade salary structures. Ready for transparency, at software speed.

The Directive sets the frame. Asezio helps you build the substance: job descriptions, gender-neutral job evaluation, grades, pay bands and pay equity analysis, all with AI support and EIGE-aligned methodology.

Built on 25+ years of hands-on HR experience.

Asezio - One workflow for job descriptions, evaluation and pay analysis.
Asezio - One workflow for job descriptions, evaluation and pay analysis.

Directive (EU) 2023/970

Company obligations and the compliance calendar

In practice, there are two things to prepare: transparency obligations, which apply to every company, and periodic reporting, phased in by employee count.

Obligations for every company

  • Transparent recruitment

    Candidates receive the initial pay or pay range before the interview.

    Asezio prepares
    • The job description
    • The job profile
    • The job advert
    • The pay range rationale
  • No salary history questions

    Recruitment no longer relies on what candidates were paid before.

    Asezio prepares
    • The interview guide
    • Interview evaluation form
    • Internal note for the recruitment team
  • Objective pay criteria

    Pay, pay levels and pay progression must be explainable through objective, gender-neutral criteria.

    Asezio prepares
    • The job evaluation
    • The evaluation rationale
    • The job evaluation register
    • The pay-setting criteria
  • Employees' right to information

    Employees may request information about their own pay level and average levels for equal work or work of equal value.

    Asezio prepares
    • The employee information notice
    • Documented response to employee requests
    • Average pay levels by comparable categories
  • Clear communications and policies

    Employees must be informed about their rights, and clauses limiting discussions about their own pay cannot be used.

    Asezio prepares
    • The remuneration and equality policy
    • The GDPR information note
    • Legal implementation note
    • Remediation action plan

Reporting by employee count

under 100employees
Voluntary reporting
National law may extend it
The Directive does not require periodic reporting below this threshold, but transparency obligations still apply.
Documents and working materials prepared by Asezio
  • Job evaluation
  • Evaluation justification
  • The salary grade structure
  • Pay gap report
  • Alignment recommendations and budget impact
100–149employees
Every 3 years
First: 7 June 2031
Companies in this range have more time before the first report, but need the same foundation of data and criteria.
Documents and working materials prepared by Asezio
  • Pay gap report
  • Indicators by categories of work of equal value
  • Alignment recommendations and budget impact
  • Remediation action plan
150–249employees
Every 3 years
First: 7 June 2027
Same first deadline as large employers, then once every three years.
Documents and working materials prepared by Asezio
  • Pay gap report
  • Indicators by categories of work of equal value
  • Joint pay assessment file
  • Remediation action plan
250+employees
Annual reporting
First: 7 June 2027
Each report covers the previous year. The first reporting data is already accumulating, from 2026.
Documents and working materials prepared by Asezio
  • Pay gap report
  • Indicators by categories of work of equal value
  • Joint pay assessment file
  • Remediation action plan

Compliance calendar

  1. 7 June 2026Deadline for transposition into national law. Member states are adopting their national rules; thresholds and details may vary.
  2. 7 June 2027First report for employers with at least 150 employees — covering 2026 data.
  3. 7 June 2031First report for employers with 100–149 employees.

Pricing

An annual subscription that fits your needs.
Pay for the documents and analyses you use.

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The subscription gives you 12 months of access and includes credits. After that you pay for the results you choose, at your subscription's rate.

A credit is a prepaid unit. Each result costs a set number of credits, shown before you order: one credit for a job description pack or a job evaluation, and more credits for the grade structure, the pay bands and the pay equity analysis, depending on the size of the organisation.

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Prices may change without prior notice. The price that applies is the one shown when you pay.

Estimate the cost for your organisation

An estimate for 12 months, for one legal entity. All amounts exclude VAT.

Your organisation
What would you like Asezio to prepare
Documents included
  • Job description
  • Job profile
  • Job advertisement
  • Interview guide
  • Key result areas (KRA)
  • Proposed performance indicators (KPI)
Documents included
  • Job evaluation
  • Evaluation rationale
  • Calibration document for the evaluation panel

The calibration document brings together the proposed scores, the rationale and the points for the panel to discuss and record. EIGE guidelines

Documents included
  • Grade structure, with jobs ranked and grouped into grades
Documents included
  • Proposed pay band for each grade
  • Where employees sit within the pay bands
Documents included
  • Pay gap report
  • Gap by pay and benefit component
  • Alignment recommendations and budget impact
  • Action and remediation plan
  • Preparatory documents for the joint pay assessment

Reference: Directive (EU) 2023/970, articles 9 and 10. Checking and validation remain with your team.

Every order includes two rounds of revisions.

Training and consultingOptional

Optional services, added to the total. Prices exclude VAT.

Setup, data import and support for the first revision round.

Price depends on the number of jobs

One day: the methodology, working in Asezio and reading the results.

Online: €1,000 · At your offices: €1,500 + travel

Calibrating evaluations, interpreting results and planning actions.

€150 per hour, minimum one hour.

About the services

The subscription does not include consultant hours. Help with setup also covers organising the job list. For training at your offices, travel is calculated separately.

Your estimate

Choose what you would like Asezio to prepare. We calculate the cost of your selection only and recommend the subscription with the lowest total.

At renewal you choose the subscription again and pay for the results you need then. Delivered documents remain readable and exportable for 1 year after the subscription expires.

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The platform

Compliance is only the first application.

Everything starts with the job description.

Asezio is built around AI-guided workflows and EIGE-aligned methodology for gender-neutral job evaluation. The same data — roles, criteria, structures — powers several kinds of work, so you never start from zero twice.

EIGE is the European Institute for Gender Equality, an agency of the European Union. EIGE guidelines

Job descriptionsYou answer simple questions and Asezio prepares an accurate, complete job description for you to review and validate.

This is where we need your input. You provide the context about the role and the organisation; the AI consultant guides you through clear questions, organises the answers and proposes a complete document for you to review, adjust and validate.

Job evaluationAsezio proposes an evaluation based on the criteria of the guide published by the European Commission together with EIGE. Your team reviews and validates the scores.

Starting from the job description and using the gender-neutral evaluation methodology, the AI consultant prepares a clear, documented evaluation. You check the reasoning, adjust where needed and validate the result.

Grade structureAsezio ranks the evaluated jobs and proposes the grade structure. Your team reviews and validates it.

As jobs are evaluated and validated, the platform groups them by score and prepares the organisation's grade structure.

Each grade brings together different jobs that have a similar internal value for the company.

Pay bandsOnce anonymised pay data is uploaded, Asezio proposes the pay band for each grade.

Pay bands are built once the grade structure and the anonymised pay and benefits data are in place.

Asezio proposes the pay bands that define the minimum and maximum pay for each grade. Your team reviews and validates the final structure.

Pay equity analysisAsezio prepares the pay analysis and a full set of reports. Your team decides how to use them.

Based on the anonymised data, the grades and the pay bands, the platform prepares the analyses needed for pay equity, internal alignment, budget impact and reporting.

The AI does the preparation and the analysis. Your team keeps control, validates the results and makes the decisions.

Competency frameworksIn developmentAsezio will analyse the information already validated and build technical, digital, behavioural or managerial competency frameworks.

The platform will prepare the proposals; your team will adapt and validate them.

Individual assessment and 360° feedbackIn developmentThe platform will support assessing people against the requirements of the job and the competency framework, including 360° reviews.

Asezio will create and run assessment questionnaires or tests, then produce reports that can be used for recruitment, promotion or professional development programmes.

Sounds complicated? That is exactly why Asezio exists. The AI consultant guides you at every step.

Less administrative work. More rigour, traceability and control. A process you can check, document and explain.

The AI consultant

It asks simple questions and turns your answers into methodologically structured documents. Asezio is a working tool: it supports compliance readiness, but does not guarantee compliance; decisions and validation remain with people.

What it helps with

  • asks simple questions in the right order
  • turns answers into structured document sections
  • keeps job descriptions, evaluation and pay logic connected
  • prepares proposals for review and validation

A short example

Who builds Asezio

HR consulting experience, translated into technology.

Dr. Roxana Hurdubei

Work and organisational psychologist

PhD in Management

Roxana leads the development of Asezio, drawing on years of complex HR and organisational transformation work across a wide range of industries.

Asezio turns that experience into a guided digital process: from job descriptions to EIGE-based job evaluation, grade structures, pay bands and pay equity analysis.

The founder's professional experience

  • 25+years in HRHR processes and organisational transformation
  • 11countriesRomania, the Middle East, Asia and Africa
  • 20 – 30,000+employeesFrom small companies to very large organisations

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