New knowledge from the Office Gender Equality Company has for the primary time revealed the gender pay hole of each non-public firm within the nation with greater than 100 workers. Whereas the nationwide hole for common whole remuneration sits at 21.7% in response to the company’s knowledge, the numbers differ considerably extra when trying on the Australian media sector.
Crikey regarded on the numbers for main Australian media publications to see the place every employer fell on gender equality within the office by a lot of key measures (though the info supplied by the WGEA is considerably extra complete and appears at whether or not employers had provisions and plans in place for gender equality, home violence responses, and maternity go away, amongst different components).
The information, which is for the 2022/23 monetary yr, can be extra complete in 2023/24, with public corporations included within the knowledge. As such, Crikey’s evaluation largely excludes the ABC and SBS, which publish their very own, barely much less detailed gender equality statistics. The restricted info included within the above graph comes from the broadcasters’ most up-to-date variety experiences.
Sky Information Australia is the one main Australian media firm to don’t have any unfavorable gender pay hole, with girls incomes 1.1% greater than males at Macquarie Park based mostly on whole remuneration.
Seven West Media had the largest gender pay disparity at 13.8%, however Guardian Australia had the worst illustration for ladies within the lowest pay quartile at 72%.
Whereas not a single main media firm had an equal share of girls of their high pay quartile, Sky Information Australia joins Information Corp as the one corporations with at the very least 50% within the second-highest quartile.
Regardless of its pay statistics, Sky Information Australia had by some margin the bottom proportion of girls in administration positions at 24%.
Guardian Australia had essentially the most girls represented as a share of whole workers at 55%, whereas newswire service Australian Related Press (AAP) had the bottom share at 40%.
Whereas Personal Media, writer of Crikey, was not captured by the WGEA as the corporate has fewer than 100 workers, the corporate mentioned it has an 11.8% pay hole, with that shifting considerably for this masthead. At Crikey, girls are paid 25.6% greater than males and comprise 66% of administration positions.
Final week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the gender pay hole was at a document low 15%, with an evaluation that additionally accounted for the general public sector.
Clarification: An earlier model of this text didn’t embrace Guardian Australia, which was additionally represented within the just lately launched WGEA figures. It has been up to date to incorporate Guardian Australia’s, in addition to Personal Media’s, pay quartile figures.