Reports

Coming Soon

Dates are set by when the evidence arrives rather than by when it would be good to publish, so each one says what it is waiting for. A report goes out when it can be defended and not before.

• The Hiring Report

  November 2026

  Monthly

  Roles opened and closed across Latvian company job boards, how long a role stays open, which functions are hiring, and the share of adverts that state a salary. Read nightly from each company’s own feed rather than from a jobs aggregator.

  Waiting on: History. The nightly observation store began on 6 September 2026 and a role that was already open then has no observed opening date, so time-to-close reads low until those roles clear. The first honest edition covers October.

• Pay Transparency Benchmark

  May 2027

  Annual

  Whether employers advertising in Latvia state pay as the law requires, how wide the stated ranges are, and how that differs by function and seniority. Framed against the EU pay transparency directive and where Latvian law actually stands at publication.

  Waiting on: A reader that examines adverts, not database fields. Latvian law has required a job advertisement to state the pay since 22 October 2024, and employers satisfy that in prose: of nine Riga roles on one board that our reader records as stating nothing, five carry a gross euro range written into the description. So the share we can currently measure is a floor on disclosure and not a rate, and publishing it as a rate would accuse companies that are complying. A full year of adverts is the second thing it needs; a year-on-year comparison needs May 2028.

• The Offshore Drift

  June 2027

  Annual

  How many Latvian companies wind up their Latvian entity while carrying on trading from a holding company abroad, where they go, and at what stage it happens. The gap between register survival and actual survival.

  Waiting on: Human verification, not data. Detecting candidates is code: a company struck off the register whose website, job feed and social accounts are all still alive. Confirming one is editorial, needs a named public source per company, and every named company gets two weeks of right of reply first. One wrong entry here costs more than the report earns.

• The Startup Survival Line

  2028

  Added to the survival curve

  The second line on the survival curve: how startups specifically fare against the register-wide baseline already published. The gap between the two is the point.

  Waiting on: Witnessed closures. It cannot be back-filled, because the directory was built from sources that only ever listed companies which still existed, and it therefore shows almost no deaths at all. From 6 September 2026 every listed company is recorded nightly, so closures are observed rather than inferred. That needs roughly two years to say anything.

A share capital report was planned as a separate piece and will not appear. Most of it is already inside the formation index, and its most interesting question, whether minimum-capital companies survive differently, cannot be answered: the register publishes capital for companies that still exist and for no others, so there is no figure for any company that closed.