The publication of company-level data for the first time on the disparity between men and women’s pay rates has revealed the median pay gap for base salaries at businesses with 100-plus employees was 14.5 per cent.
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency data is the latest addition to a suite of gender pay gap measures published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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Michael Read is the Financial Review's economics correspondent, reporting from the federal press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia and at UBS. Connect with Michael on Twitter. Email Michael at michael.read@afr.com
