2023 Gender Pay Gap Ireland: Insights Report

January 2024

Citris Rewards Consulting analysed the gender pay gap reports of over 500 organisations who have published reports for 2023

The main findings of the analysis are:

• The average mean hourly pay gap for those organisations who published reports in both 2022 and 2023 has fallen by 1.1 percentage points from 12.3% to 11.2%

• The analysis shows reductions across both public and private organisations, and across the majority of industry sectors. The exception is the legal sector, where the pay gap, including equity partners, has increased

• Whilst the overall trend is encouraging, it is against a backdrop where the average pay of men is still greater than the average pay of women at 86% of organisations.

• Pay gaps have reduced for 60% of organisations in our analysis [relative to 2022], but they have increased or remained the same for the remaining 40%. The impact across all organisations is a reduction in the average gender pay gap as outlined above

• At Ireland’s largest listed companies (represented by the ISEQ 20), the gender pay gap is greater than across the broader private sector.

• The highest pay gaps are in legal, banking, engineering, construction and insurance

• The lowest pay gaps are in consumer goods, public sector, charities, hospitality and retail.

For a full copy of the report, including analysis by industry sector, please click here.