First-time data on Australia's gender pay gaps has revealed the country's 22 biggest architecture firms pay men between five and 27 per cent more than women, failing to meet the government's target pay gap range.
Published yesterday in an online tool by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), a federal government agency, the data included figures from all private companies in Australia with one hundred employees or more. It was the first time gender wage gaps from individual employers had been published in the country.
Out of a total of nearly 5,000 companies, 22 were architecture and landscape architecture studios, including Grimshaw, Hassell and Woods Bagot.
All 22 studios had a median total remuneration gender pay gap in favour of men and failed to have pay gaps within the target range of plus or minus five per cent, which allows "normal business fluctuations and employee movements", according to WGEA CEO Mary Wooldridge. Majority of companies reported pay gaps of over five per cent
In comparison, 62 per cent of all the companies in the data had median gender pay gaps of more than five per cent in favour of men.
Nine of the studios had gender pay gaps larger than the national average of 19 per cent.
The architecture and landscape architecture studios included in the data were Architectus, Aspect Studios, Bates Smart, Billard Leece Partnership, Buchan Group, BVN, Conrad Gargett, Cox Architecture, Designinc, Francis-Jones Carpenter, GHD Woodhead, Grimshaw, ...