In 2022, the hourly average gender wage gap across Canada was 13%. Figure 7: Statistics Canada. Table 14-10-0417-01 Employee wages by occupation, annual (average hourly gender wage ratio, both full- and part-time employees, all occupations, 15 years and over, Canadian provinces).
Argument: In Canada, it's illegal to pay women less than men. So the gender pay gap is a myth. Reality: Canada's Human Rights Act does prohibit gender discrimination in pay.
It's one of the root causes of gendered poverty. Women are more vulnerable to low income than men in Canada, partially due to the gender pay gap (Fox and Moyser, Statistics Canada, 2018).
Pay equity
Canadians have the right to experience workplace compensation practices that are free from gender-based discrimination. Pay equity aims to ensure that employers provide you with equal pay for doing work of equal value.
Using average annual earnings, Statistics Canada data from the Canadian Income Survey indicates that female employees in Ontario earned $0.75 for every dollar earned by men in 2020, or the gender wage gap was 25%.
Overall, both Canada and the US are fairly expensive to live in. Canada has much higher housing costs but healthcare costs are much more expensive in the US. While US salaries are slightly higher, Canadians have a much easier time making a higher salary with less education.
The national gender pay gap, on base salary, is 13.3%. For every $1 men make on average, Australian women make 87 cents. On average, women working full-time earned a base salary of $1,653.60 per week, while men working full-time earned $1,907.10.
The gender pay gap in each state
In November 2022: Western Australia had the widest gender pay gap at 22.1% Tasmania had the smallest gender pay gap at 6%
As of 2021, Belgium is the country with the most equal pay between the genders of OECD countries. The gender pay gap was at 1.17 percent. South Korea, on the other hand, is the country with the highest gender pay gap of the OECD countries with a 31 percent difference between the genders.
Pink tax has long been documented
In 2021, Canadian data company Parsehub scraped the websites of Walmart Canada and Shoppers Drug Mart and found that overall, women paid more for personal hygiene products and more than 50 per cent more for deodorant and body wash.
In Canada, Equal Pay Day is April 12. It symbolizes how far into the current year the average woman must work to earn what the average man earned in the previous year.
Committed to advancing equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression through the inclusion of people of all genders, including women, in Canada's economic, social, and political life.
Everyone born in Canada has the right to define their own gender. [1] This means that you have the right to change your gender marker and name on all your identity documents. This includes your Birth Certificate, Driver's License, Photo Card and Health Card.
Australia is ranked 43rd for gender equality internationally. 3.9% are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
More than four and a half million Australian employees will be able to access their employer's gender pay gaps starting in early 2024 after the passage of the Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023 in Federal Parliament today.
According to MindTribes chief executive Div Pillay, the cultural pay gap sees men of ethnic backgrounds paid as much as 16 to 20 per cent less than their Anglo male counterparts, and women of ethnic backgrounds as much as 36 per cent less. First Nations women suffer the largest pay gap of all.
The gender pay gap
The 2022 mean GPG (the difference between men's and women's average hourly pay) is 5.45% and the median is 9.71%. In monetary terms, the mean hourly difference in ordinary pay is £1.44 compared to £1.48 in 2021 and the median hourly difference is £2.41 compared to £2.68 in 2021.
The average yearly salary in Australia is 90,800 AUD (USD 60,355). Let's go through a few key indicators of the average earnings in Australia so you can fully understand salary statistics and trends in the country.
Women's labor is undervalued. Most of the disparity in women and men's pay cannot be explained by measurable differences between them. Out of the causes of the wage gap that we can measure, the main contributor is that women are more likely than men to work in low-paying jobs that offer fewer benefits. Education.
The average wage rate in Australia is higher than in Canada. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, full-time workers' average weekly salary was AUD 1,789 (approximately CAD 1,651) in May 2021.
For example, average per-person income in Canada is now roughly US$51,000 versus US$54,000 in Australia. Again, these differences in income growth are rooted in productivity growth. Between 1995 and 2019, Australia's average growth in labour productivity exceeded Canada's by 0.3 percentage points.
In 2021, the average monthly salary in Canada was $5,481. So, an annual pay of $70,000 or more will be above average.