Our latest Pay Gaps Report and Action Plan
We've released the latest report of our Pay Gaps, as well as our Action Plan on what we're doing about addressing these gaps.
ACC’s latest Pay Gaps Report and Action Plan shows our mean vertical gender pay gap is about the same as last year (17.8%). Our median vertical gender pay gap increased by 2.5 percentage points to 19.4%.
Our horizontal gender pay gaps – the gaps between men and women working in the same job band at ACC – remain low at less than 5%. Our vertical gender pay gap is higher where gender intersects with ethnicity, with Māori, Pasifika and Asian women earning the least on average.
This year’s report finds no evidence of pay gaps based on age or disability.
What are we doing about our gender pay gap?
ACC Deputy Chief Executive People and Culture, Michael Frampton, says: “We’ve already taken steps to address the pay gaps with a focus on lifting what we’re paying employees in lower job bands where we have a higher proportion of women.”
This included changes in November 2022 to increase our starting wage for ACC from $22.75 to $24 per hour, and adjusting starting salaries for roles in lower job bands.
Our Pay Gaps Report and Action Plan 2022-23 sets out the actions we’ll take over the next year.
Michael Frampton says: “ACC is committed to being a diverse and inclusive organisation that represents the people of Aotearoa New Zealand. That includes improving the gender balance across all levels of our organisation.
“Over the past year we’ve made a range of positive changes aimed at becoming the best possible workplace for ACC employees and their whānau. These have included changes to our remuneration approach to minimise bias, particularly for lower job bands, and launching a new flexible and inclusive approach to hybrid working.
“We’ll continue this important mahi over the year ahead, including fully reviewing our remuneration strategy and working to remove any bias from our recruitment and offer processes.
“ACC’s Board and Executive are committed to taking action to address our pay gaps.”
Read our Pay Gaps Report and Action Plan 2022-23
Calculating our Pay Gap
To work out our mean vertical gender pay gap, we add together all salaries we pay our women employees and divide that by the number of women working at ACC, and then do the same for men’s salaries. The pay gap is the difference between these two numbers.
We work out our median vertical gender pay gap by lining up the pay for each of our women employees from lowest to highest and doing the same for men. We then look at the difference between the middle figures for men and for women.
