The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) published Kids First Australia’s gender pay gap information on 3 February 2026, as part of the 2024–2025 reporting period. The gender pay gap shows the difference in average and typical (median) pay between women and men across an organisation. We use this information to better understand how we are progressing on gender equality, and where we can continue to improve.
Closing the gender pay gap is important to Kids First Australia (Kids First) and reflects our commitment to fairness, transparency and long-term positive change. Our gender pay gap information is available on the WGEA Employer Data Explorer for the 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 reporting years.
We are proud of the progress we have made over this period.
“Being open and honest about our data is important to us. We’re committed to building the systems, leadership and culture that support fairness for everyone at Kids First - now and into the future.”
— Nicole Artico, Chief Executive Officer
Kids First is a female-dominated organisation. Women make up 88% of our workforce, up from 86% in the previous reporting year. WGEA reports that the national average gender pay gap is 21.1% for total pay, which includes salary and other payments. At Kids First, we continue to reduce our gender pay gap. In 2024–2025, our pay gap was 4%, down from 4.2% the year before. This reflects differences in how roles and levels of seniority are distributed across our workforce. Importantly, our median (typical employee) pay gap was –2.9%, a strong improvement from 1.8% the previous year. This means that, at the median level, women are paid more than men.
We know that gender diversity in leadership supports stronger outcomes for people and organisations alike. At Kids First:
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Our Board Chair and CEO are women
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Nearly 45% of Board members are women
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78% of our leaders are women, up from 76% the previous year.
We remain committed to ongoing and long-term progress. Our focus includes:
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Developing a Gender Equality Action Plan that clearly outlines our actions and how we will measure progress
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Recognising that gender inequality can affect people differently, and that some employees may experience additional barriers due to other aspects of their identity
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Improving our HR systems so we can better collect and report diversity information beyond gender, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background, cultural and linguistic diversity, disability, sexual orientation and other gender identities.
Kids First will continue to review and analyse our gender pay gap results, to better understand what drives them and to take targeted action to support fairness and equity across our organisation.
You can view our published results on the Workplace Gender Equality Agency Employer Data Explorer, alongside data from more than 10,500 employers across Australia.
