Microsoft Australia Gender Pay Statement 2025

At Microsoft, our culture is how we deliver on our mission. It fuels performance by helping us attract, develop, and retain exceptional talent, and by embedding inclusion into how we work so we can innovate, adapt, and meet the needs of our customers in a changing world. 

We are committed to pay equity—providing equitable pay for substantially similar work—and to building a workforce with the skills and capabilities needed to compete globally.  These commitments are reflected in our disclosures, including data published by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) under the Workplace Gender Equality Amendment Act 2023 in Australia. You can find details from our disclosure at WGEA Data Explorer. 

To provide a more complete view of pay at Microsoft, we also voluntarily share our pay equity analysis for Australia. As of September 2025, women who are rewards eligible in Australia earn $1 in total pay for every $1 earned by men in the same job title and level, taking tenure into account.  

The data published by the WGEA reflects pay gap analysis, which measures differences in pay between groups regardless of factors that legitimately influence pay. This is different from pay equity analysis, which measures the difference in the pay of two employee groups accounting for factors that legitimately influence pay, such as job title, level and tenure. Where pay equity exists, a pay gap can highlight opportunities to continue increasing representation of women in more senior roles. 

We remain focused on transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring our efforts are measurable, meaningful, and consistent with legal requirements in each country where we operate. 

Inclusion is a business imperative, embedded in how we lead, collaborate, and deliver.