48.1 percent of the 32,762 aviation jobs posted on WingmanPro state a number. The other half would like you to interview first and find out at the end, like a tasting menu, but for rent.
By WingmanPro Research · Published August 28, 2026
We publish salary reports built from posted pay ranges, which means we spend a lot of time staring at the listings that do not have one. As of August 28, 2026, that is 51.9 percent of the board. This report is about the silent half: where it is, which roles hide the most, and why we think every silent listing is quietly taxing itself.
| State | Open listings | Share stating pay |
|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 460 | 92.2% |
| California | 6,904 | 89.9% |
| Colorado | 853 | 89.8% |
| Washington | 1,385 | 85.6% |
| New York | 874 | 72.7% |
| Virginia | 508 | 67.3% |
| Illinois | 543 | 63.9% |
| Ohio | 403 | 49.6% |
| Georgia | 472 | 35.6% |
| Florida | 875 | 35.4% |
| Texas | 2,542 | 29.0% |
California, Colorado, Washington, New York and Illinois all have pay-transparency laws, and there they are at the top of the table. Texas, Florida and Georgia do not, and there they are at the bottom. Aviation employers disclose pay when a statute makes them and mostly do not when it does not. Nothing about the industry is special here except how cleanly it proves the point.
Then there is Missouri, the most transparent aviation state in America at 92.2 percent, with no transparency law at all. The explanation is one company: 381 of Missouri's 460 listings belong to Boeing, which discloses pay everywhere it hires. One employer's policy can out-legislate a legislature. It can also cut the other way; a single large silent employer drags a whole state's number down.
Disclosure is lowest exactly where competition for people is fiercest, which is backwards, and nowhere more so than at the regionals: regional airlines currently post 61 pilot jobs and 13 of them state a number. The pattern repeats down the board. The scarcer the worker, the cagier the listing.
Compliance has its own art form. One large charter operator posts its flight attendant roles at $50,000 to $500,000 a year, a range that satisfies the letter of every transparency law while communicating slightly less than silence would. Ranges like that are why the 75th percentile of cabin pay looks spectacular and should be read with one eyebrow up. A range wider than the job's entire industry is not transparency; it is a shrug with formatting.
The market's medians are public now. Anyone can see that the median captain listing posts $212,750, that avionics techs post $127,500, that the aviation-wide median is $132,000. Next to those numbers, a silent listing does not read as discreet or flexible. It reads as below the median, because if it were above, you would say so. The half of the industry that prints the number is drafting off the half that will not. If you are hiring, this is the cheapest competitive advantage left in aviation recruiting: type the salary.
48.1 percent of the 32,762 aviation jobs posted on WingmanPro state a pay range or figure. The other 51.9 percent ask you to apply and find out at the end.
Missouri leads at 92.2 percent, then California at 89.9, Colorado at 89.8 and Washington at 85.6. At the other end, Texas states pay on 29 percent of listings, Florida 35.4 and Georgia 35.6.
Almost perfectly. California, Colorado, Washington, New York and Illinois all have transparency laws and all sit at the top of the table; Texas, Florida and Georgia have none and sit at the bottom. Missouri is the exception that proves it: no law, top of the table, because 381 of its 460 listings are Boeing, which discloses everywhere.
Flight attendant listings are the industry's worst at 27.6 percent stating pay, then flight instructors at 32.6 and pilots at 44. Ground crew listings are the most transparent at 64.8 percent, on the industry's lowest wages. Disclosure is lowest exactly where competition for people is fiercest.
Snapshot of the 32,762 published listings posted on WingmanPro on August 28, 2026. A listing counts as stating pay if it posts any usable range or single figure in US dollars. State table includes states with at least 400 open listings. Role disclosure rates are from the September 2026 report snapshot one day earlier. Refreshed monthly.