The gap between women and men’s pay in the federal public sector has more than halved from 13.5 per cent to 6.4 per cent, a result dwarfed by the 21.8 per cent pay gap in the private sector.

Those are the results of a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) 2023 scorecard covering 241,224 employees from 119 public service employers, published on Wednesday, which for the first time includes agency-by-agency data.