'Reality Check' for Workplaces on Gender Pay Gaps
The national gender pay gap narrowed to 11.2% in 2024-25, but senior roles and male-dominated sectors like construction still show large disparities, WGEA data reveals.
- Last year's WGEA data show the gender pay gap is 11.2 per cent, down 0.9 points, with most employers reducing their gaps.
- Because more women moved into managerial roles and lower-paid wages rose, lower-paid workers saw pay growth of 4.3 per cent in the lowest quartile and 4.5 per cent in the lower-middle quartile.
- In construction only one in 10 top-quartile workers are women, and half of private sector employers pay men nearly 30 per cent more in bonuses and overtime.
- Despite progress, only one-quarter of employers with more than 100 staff ran comprehensive pay-gap analyses, while 22.5 per cent met WGEA targets in 2024–25, the agency found.
- The dataset spans more than 10,500 employers and affects almost 5.9 million workers, and for the first time WGEA released gaps for 126 Commonwealth public sector employers, noting some major Australian brands slipped backwards.
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Across Australia, for every dollar a man earns, women on average are earning 88- point- 8 cents. The government's gender equality agency says the gender pay gap has narrowed to 11. 2 per cent. And while most sectors have seen improvements, pay gaps remain large in some male-dominated industries, such as finance, construction and mining.
The Australian employers where the gender pay gap is widening
Major Australian brands are failing to turn the dial on the gender pay gap, with some even slipping backwards in the past year, a detailed new report has revealed.The massive annual data dump by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) reports on the gender pay gap for 10,500 Australian employers in both the private and public sectors, accounting for 5.9 million workers.It shows an incremental overall improvement in the gender pay gap, with …
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