Men earn more than women on average at almost three in four large Australian employers, data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency reveals. This is despite 56 per cent of companies with 100 or more employees reporting a narrower gender pay gap than when the figures were revealed for the first time last year.

Australian employers have been legally required since 1969 to pay the same wages to men and women who perform the same work, so unequal pay between like-for-like roles is not a significant driver of the discrepancies between male and female earnings.