The EU Directive 2023/970 is intended as a remedy for the persistent pay inequalities between men and women. It contains a comprehensive set of pay transparency mechanisms that seek to address the information asymmetry regarding salaries between employers and employees. These measures will not only apply during employment, but also at the pre-contractual stage. This article discusses the pay transparency prior to employment mechanisms provided for in the Directive (obligation to disclose the salary range at an early stage of recruitment, prohibition of asking about previous earnings, and therequirement of neutral and non-discriminatory job advertisements) and compares them with the current standards in Poland. The issue of the Directive’s personal scope was also addressed. The aim was to determine the extent to which the Directive’s implementation will affect the national legal framework for the recruitment process, as well as to put forward proposals for the wording of the provisions implementing the solutions in question.