WORKPLACE gender equality Agency (WGEA) has completed a new analysis of the pay gap between men and women in Australia, which shows women must work on average an extra 50 more days in a financial year than men to earn the same amount.
Last year, WGEA estimated women needed to work 56 extra days, so the pay scale is slightly on the improve, but there’s still a large discrepancy.
“Every time it comes down it’s positive, but 50 days is still a lot of days. That’s a lot of extra work that women are doing just to earn the same, on average, that men earned in the previous year,” WGEA CEO Mary Wooldridge told SBS news.
The WGEA total remuneration average gender pay gap is 21.7%. For every $1 on average a man makes, women earn 78c. Over the course of a year, that difference adds up to $26,393.
WGEA used Australian Bureau of Statistics data from February to calculate its findings, and the analysis doesn’t include bonuses, superannuation or overtime.
