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The Accountants 2025: gender pay data ‘keeps you honest’

ANALYSIS: Encouraging more women into partnership positions and decreasing the gender pay gap remains a slow-moving task.

Kate McVicar Wed, 09 Apr 2025
Key points
  • What’s at stake: While  accounting firms are increasingly committed to closing gender pay gaps, progress is slow and sticking points remain. 
  • Background: The gender pay gap in accountancy has remained stubborn as the industry tries to close the distance between men and women. 
  • Key players: Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, EY, BDO, BakerTillyStaplesRodway, Findex, Grant Thornton, Moore Markhams, Nexia, RSM, Acclime, William Buck, McCulloch & Partners, CA ANZ.

For the past few years, NBR has asked the country's largest accounting firms for their gender pay gaps, as well as gender proportions at different levels of seniority within their organisation.

Nearly every firm was able to provide the information, as well as commentary about what initiatives they

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Kate McVicar Wed, 09 Apr 2025
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Key points
  • What’s at stake: While  accounting firms are increasingly committed to closing gender pay gaps, progress is slow and sticking points remain. 
  • Background: The gender pay gap in accountancy has remained stubborn as the industry tries to close the distance between men and women. 
  • Key players: Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, EY, BDO, BakerTillyStaplesRodway, Findex, Grant Thornton, Moore Markhams, Nexia, RSM, Acclime, William Buck, McCulloch & Partners, CA ANZ.
The Accountants 2025: gender pay data ‘keeps you honest’
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