Australian women wages are still less than men working same job

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency says the pay difference between women and men remained the same last financial year.

Women at work are still earning less than men doing the same job Source: Getty / kzenon

Last financial year (2021-2022), the wage difference between women and men remained at 22.8 per cent which means means on average women earned $26,596 dollars less than men.

Data has revealed women in Australia are earning nearly $26,000 less than their male colleagues. Source: SBS

The average full time wage for women is now just over 90,000 dollars a year while for men, it's almost 117.000.

And men are nearly twice as likely as women - to be among the top 25 per cent of earners.

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