11 May 2026

OECD report: Pay Transparency in Progress

This report is the third annual stocktaking report on gender pay gap reporting, pay auditing and gender-neutral job classification measures across the 38 OECD countries.

It finds that progress in closing the gender pay gap remains painfully slow. Full-time working women in the OECD still earn on average 90% of what full-time working men earn.

The use of pay transparency tools has become increasingly popular in promoting pay equity. And operationalising the principle of equal pay for equal work and work of equal value is a fundamental step to tackle gender pay gaps.

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Almost 40% of OECD countries require private sector employers to conduct gender-neutral job evaluations.
55% of OECD countries mandate pay gap reporting by private sector employers.
By the end of 2026, however, it is expected that 84% of OECD countries (32 out of 38) will require private sector gender pay gap reporting, with expansion driven by the EU Pay Transparency Directive.