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Gender pay gap reports
- Published on: 20 November 2025
- Last updated on: 20 November 2025
Our commitments to closing the gender pay gap
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is committed to providing a positive work environment with a strong focus on dignity, respect and diversity. We have a globally distributed workforce and we prioritise our greatest assets, our people, to perform to the highest levels.
The Department's Gender, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Action Plan 2022-25, and HR Strategy 2023-27 commit us to 'Improved gender balance across all levels of the Department' and a 'Reduction of Gender Pay Gap to below 10% by 2025'.
Latest report
The Department has been active in seeking to reduce the Gender Pay Gap over a number of years, which we are pleased to have reduced to 11.5% in June 2025.
Read the 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report.