Each year, relevant employers have the opportunity to provide a publicly accessible URL or hyperlink (link) to an Employer Statement to accompany their Gender Pay Gap results published on the WGEA Data Explorer.
The Employer Statement is an opportunity for reporting employers to publicly communicate their contexts and commitments to narrowing their gender pay gap.
Employers upload a link to their statement via the Employer Portal which will sit beside their gender pay gap on the WGEA Data Explorer.
Gender Pay Gap publication
For further information about Gender Pay Gaps, publication and resources to assist employers to reduce their Gender Pay Gap, refer to Gender Pay Gap Publication.
Employer Statement Guide
The gender pay gap is a universally recognised metric of workplace gender equality. However, it is only one measure of an employer’s commitment to achieving gender equality in the workplace.
An Employer Statement is an effective tool for employers to update key stakeholders about their progress on gender equality in the workplace each year.
It also provides the context of their work on addressing their gender pay gap.
Providing an Employer Statement isn't compulsory. However, it can be valuable information for key stakeholders and a way to establish and strengthen the employer's brand.
WGEA's Employer Statement Guide details key steps to develop your statement and how to use it to drive action within your workplace.
Important: WGEA does not review or warrant the accuracy of your Employer Statement to third parties.
How to upload a link to your Employer Statement
Employers can create a statement which provides context to the gender pay gap(s) published by WGEA.
Reporting contacts can upload a publicly accessible link to your Employer Statement via the Employer Portal.
A link to your Employer Statement will be made visible on the Data Explorer when your gender pay gap is published. It will be situated next to your gender pay gap.
Instructions:
- Log into the Employer Portal
- Select the ‘Employer Statement’ tab
- Select the organisation/s from the displayed list
- Enter the full URL address (starting with ‘https://’) against the selected employer
- You must read the notice and disclaimer to save your employer statement link.
Timelines
For key dates and updated information, refer to the Employer Statement Guide. To ensure WGEA will display your Employer Statement on the Data Explorer when we publish gender pay gaps, your link needs to be uploaded to the Employer portal two weeks before publication. WGEA will notify employers of key dates as they approach.
Corporate groups
Only the organisations that received their own specific Executive Summary will appear in the Employer Statement list below. Corporate group employers can provide a link for the publication of a group-wide employer statement as well as a link for an employer statement specific to a subsidiary. If an employer wants their corporate group employer statement to also be published alongside some/all of their subsidiary’s gender pay gaps, then you must add a link for each subsidiary.
The link to your Employer Statement will not go live before gender pay gaps are published. However, you can publish and/or distribute your Employer Statement on your website or elsewhere prior to this time.
A publicly accessible link does...
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- https://www.
- http://www.
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Frequently asked questions
When is the Employer Statement due?
Private sector employers
- A URL web address link to your Employer Statement can be uploaded via the ‘Employer Statements’ tab of the Employer Portal.
- To ensure your Employer Statement is published on the Data Explorer at the same time as your Gender Pay Gap, you must have uploaded a link by the dates in the Employer Statement Guide.
- You can upload the link to your Statement, and it will be added to the WGEA Data Explorer when your gender pay gap is published.
Commonwealth Public sector employers
- Commonwealth public sector gender pay gaps will be published in May 2026.
- To ensure WGEA will display your Employer Statement on the Data Explorer when we publish gender pay gaps, your link needs to be uploaded to the Employer portal two weeks before publication of employer Gender Pay Gaps.
- WGEA will notify employers of key dates as they approach.
Is the Employer Statement compulsory?
Providing an Employer Statement isn't compulsory. However, it can be valuable information for key stakeholders and a way to establish and strengthen the employer's brand.
Will there be a template of the Employer Statement provided?
WGEA does not provide a template for the Employer Statement. However, employers can use the Employer Statement Guide to assist with the process of compiling their Statement.