Organisations should focus on broadening the diversity pool by providing support and development opportunities to women at the middle management level to ensure they are the best qualified candidates to enter senior executive ranks
The key finding of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s latest gender pay gap data is that men still overwhelmingly earn more than women on average at almost three in four large Australian employers.
This year’s dataset paints a more detailed picture of the income disparity by including the average pay packet and earnings by income quartile of the 9500 organisations that report to WGEA. It also covers chief executive pay for the first time, revealing that the higher the salary, the larger the gender pay gap in favour of men.
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