Australian women wages are still less than men working same job

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

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

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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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