Key facts. 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 wage gap
Women, on average, were paid 20.3% less than men in 2019. By 2022, that gap widened to 22.2%. Similarly, the regression-adjusted wage gap, which has been stagnant for most of the last 20+ years, widened slightly from 22.6% to 22.9%.
The February 2023 average weekly pay for men working full time was $1,907.10. Women earnt $1,653.60 per week on average. That's a difference of $253 every week and $13,183 every year. At the average rate of pay for women, this is the equivalent of eight weeks additional paid work (56 days).
Women earn just 82 cents for every dollar a man makes. Men in the legal industry earn an average of 59% more than women. Women of color are among the lowest-paid workers in rural areas, with rural Black and Hispanic women making just 56 cents for every dollar that rural white, non-Hispanic men make.
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 Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023 has passed the Parliament. That means from early 2024, the gender pay gaps of employers with 100 or more workers will be published – a key reform to drive transparency and action towards closing the gender pay gap.
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%
Bias and discrimination in recruitment and pay decisions. Women, on average, handle a disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work. Lack of workplace flexibility to accommodate care and other responsibilities, especially in senior roles, meaning women often miss out on higher positions (and salaries)
The gender pay gap is influenced by several factors, including: • discrimination and bias in hiring and pay decisions • women and men working in different industries and different jobs, with female-dominated industries and jobs attracting lower wages • women's disproportionate share of unpaid caring and domestic work • ...
Much of the gender pay gap has been explained by measurable factors such as educational attainment, occupational segregation and work experience. The narrowing of the gap over the long term is attributable in large part to gains women have made in each of these dimensions.
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.
Australia is ranked 43rd for gender equality internationally. 3.9% are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. 28.3% were born overseas.
The average annual salary in Australia is $68,900 and $35.30 per hour. It is just the average salary for basic workers but skilled and experienced workers also earn around $108,980 annually. The average salary also varies depending on the field of work and the job role of workers.
The National Minimum Wage
This is the minimum pay rate provided by the Fair Work Act 2009 and is reviewed each year. As of 1 July 2023 the National Minimum Wage is $23.23 per hour or $882.80 per week.
The Impact of Occupation and Industry
Although most of the wage gap between men and women cannot be explained through measurable differences, by far the largest contributors we can measure are the types of jobs that women have, and the lower compensation offered in those jobs.
Average Australian Salaries in 2023
A taxable income that was $131,501 or higher was within the top 10% of earners in Australia last year. About 5% of taxpayers had incomes above $180,000. Someone who earned more than $253,066 was in the top 1%.
In 2022, women earned an average of 82% of what men earned, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis. That's only up 2% from 2002. It will take more than half a century to close the gender pay gap at the historical rate of progress, according to PwC's Women in Work Index 2023.
The gender pay gap has hardly budged in 20 years. What gives? Women earn about 82 cents for every dollar men make, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. That means on March 14, women's pay catches up to what men made in 2022.
What is gender inequality? Gender inequality is discrimination on the basis of sex or gender causing one sex or gender to be routinely privileged or prioritized over another. Gender equality is a fundamental human right and that right is violated by gender-based discrimination.
Mothers suffer a penalty relative to non-mothers and men in the form of lower perceived competence and commitment, higher professional expectations, lower likelihood of hiring and promotion, and lower recommended salaries. This evidence implies that being a mother leads to discrimination in the workplace.
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.