A report on the 2023-24 gender pay gaps of 7,800 private sector employers and 1,700 corporate groups. It sets a benchmark from which employers can drive change and assists with making comparisons across employers and industries. 

The gender pay gaps reflect what employers were doing in anticipation of the agency publishing pay gaps for the first time. 

The report is accompanied by a data spreadsheet with all 9,500 employer pay gaps listed.

Key insights

• For every $1 a man earns, women earn 78 cents on average. This adds up to a yearly difference of $28,425.
• The over-representation of men in the upper quartile may be a significant driver for 2/3 of employer gender pay gaps.
• Women are less likely to work in the highest paying jobs in the economy.
• Employers in men-dominated industries are more likely to pay men more, on average.
• Employers that pay more are more likely to have larger gender pay gaps in favour of men.
• Low paying employers in women-dominated industries are the most likely to pay women more than men.
• Big gaps between the highest earners and the lowest paid workers drives gender pay gaps.
• Men earn $11,204 more, on average, from superannuation and discretionary payments.
• Larger employers have smaller gender pay gaps.
• Progress is happening. In every industry, a majority of employers improved their gender pay gap between 2022–23 and 2023–24.