Executive Summary
February 2024
First released in 2016, the Achieving equal pay in like-for-like roles toolkit provides practical tools to assist organisations to measure and close like-for-like gender pay gaps. It captures insights from Member action identifying and eliminating like-for-like pay gaps and supports leaders to maintain the action and vigilance required to close like-for-like gender pay gaps.
As Members of the Champions of Change Coalition, for many years we have closely monitored and reported on like-for-like gender pay gaps (also known as pay inequality) and taken action to address the disparities.
While related, like-for-like gender pay gaps and employer gender pay gaps are two different aspects of compensation disparity between women and men. Pay inequality is where women and men are paid different amounts for performing the same role or different work of equal or comparable value. In Australia, paying men and women equally for performing the same roles has been a legal requirement since 1969.
Gender pay gaps highlight overall disparities in compensation between women and men, driven by the existence of systemic barriers to women’s equal workforce participation, progress and pay – as opposed to not getting paid the same for comparable roles.
Closing like-for-like pay gaps complements action we take to understand and address the drivers of our employer gender pay gaps, which can be supported by the following resources.
