After submission

After submission, employers must complete the following requirements:

  1. Notification and access requirements
  2. The CEO/equivalent presents the Executive Summary (or summaries) and Industry Benchmark Report(s) to the relevant governing body at the end of the year
  3. Employers with 500 or more employees must meet a Gender Equality Standard

Please refer to the WGEA Compliance Strategy for information about all of your compliance requirements. 

All submissions are given 28 days to make any edits or updates to their submission.

  • Submissions cannot be edited after the 28 day hold period has ended.
  • This 28 day change period is only guaranteed to employers who lodge within the 2 month submission period (April to May) or within an agreed formal extension period.

WGEA analyses and publishes employer data in November each year. Included in this release are the following gender pay gap figures:

  1. Median base salary 
  2. Median total remuneration 
  3. Average base salary (starting from the 2023-24) reporting program)
  4. Average total remuneration (starting from the 2023-24 reporting program)

Note: From the 2023-24 reporting program onwards, figures will be published for both "corporate groups" and subsidiary companies (i.e. companies within a corporate group with an individual ABN).

Notification and access requirements

Employers must comply with the notification and access requirements. These relate to how the public data from your report is shared with employees, members and shareholders.

To comply, an employer must do the following:

  • Inform its employees and members or shareholders that it has lodged its report with the Agency and advise how the public data may be accessed
  • Provide access to the public data to employees and members or shareholders
  • Inform employee organisations with members in its workplace that the report has been lodged
  • Inform its employees and those employee organisations with members in its workplace of the opportunity to comment on the report to the employer or the Agency.

Industry Benchmark Report

The Industry Benchmark Report compares your results to the results of other organisations in an ‘Industry Comparison Group’.

Legislation requires employers to provide their WGEA Executive Summary and Industry Benchmark Report to their board or governing body. Employers can provide the Executive Summary to the board alone, or together with the Industry Benchmark Report as soon as reasonably practical.

Calculating the gender pay gap

The gender pay gap (GPG) calculated by WGEA from your submission can be viewed in the Executive Summary document.

WGEA calculates the gender pay gap for base salary and total remuneration in two ways:

  • Average: the average gender pay gap is the difference between women’s and men’s average earnings, expressed as a percentage of men’s average earnings.
  • Median: the median gender pay gap is the difference between the median woman's and median man's average earnings, expressed as a percentage of the average man's earnings.

Both sets of gender pay gap figures in your Executive Summary are derived from the data in your Workplace Profile section of your submission.

Gender Equality Standards

The Workplace Gender Equality (Gender Equality Standards) Instrument 2023 sets the minimum gender equality standard for employers of 500 or more employees.

The Gender Equality (GE) Standard is:

  • an extra compliance requirement for relevant employers with 500 or more employees reported in the submission, and
  • the least an employer must do to show commitment to workplace gender equality and diversity.
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