Gender pay gap calculator

Enter the job roles, comparison criteria, and pay data to calculate pay differences between women and men within your company.

The tool allows you to measure the pay gap between women and men within your company and identify whether there are pay inequities that require correction.

Complete the 4 steps to generate the report

1 Roles analysed

2 Comparison mode

3 Salary data

4 Final report

1. Add the positions and group comparable roles

In this step you create the list of positions or categories of positions for which you will enter salary data. For relevant results, group comparable roles according to your company's structure.

No.	Role code, role or category *	Job group E.g.: Finance, HR, IT, Sales	Level / Grade E.g.: Junior, Specialist, Senior, Manager	Actions
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How does the calculator work?

1. General information

The tool is versatile and adapts to the structure of any company. You can calculate the pay gap for just two positions or work with whole groups of positions. Where appropriate, you can also include job levels (e.g. specialist level I/II) to reflect the internal hierarchy.

There is no fixed structure — you can compare positions in any combination that reflects the reality of your company.

2. Accuracy of calculations

The calculator does not verify or guarantee the accuracy of the entered data. Results reflect only the information you provide, and the accuracy of calculations depends directly on its correctness. The information is not stored on the server and is used only for the current analysis; the data you save during the process is kept on your own computer.

3. Who fills in the calculator

We recommend that the process be carried out by the person responsible for human resources (HR) or by the finance/accounting department, who have access to up-to-date employee salary data.

4. Data to prepare before starting

List of positions or categories in the company
Number of women and men for each position
Average annual (gross) salaries by gender, for each position.

5. Filling in the data at the current step

At this step you are asked to fill in the following fields or choose the parameters:

Job role – the exact name of a position in the company. You can find it in the employment contract, job description or the occupation classifier (CORM 006-2021).
Examples: Accountant, Lawyer, Engineer, Driver, Sales Manager
If the role does not appear in the predefined list, you can enter it manually.
Job group – a category that brings together several similar roles or roles with comparable responsibilities that you want to analyse together, without detailing them individually.
Examples: Administrative staff (includes secretary, assistant, operator), Technical staff (includes electrician, mechanic, technician), Management staff (includes director, department head, manager)
Fill in this column if the company has several similar positions and you prefer to group them for an overview.
Level – the hierarchical step within the same role or group, where the same position has several degrees of experience or responsibility.
Examples: Accountant level I / level II / level III, Junior / Senior Specialist, Engineer category I / category II
Fill in this column only if such subdivisions exist in your company.
If they do not exist, select No level.

Important note: it is not mandatory to fill in all three columns for each row — choose the combination that most faithfully reflects the reality of your organisation.

The choice depends on two things: the company structure and the purpose of the analysis.

A small company with 10 employees and 3 distinct positions will fill it in differently than a company with hundreds of employees and dozens of roles structured by levels and departments. There is no universal approach — the tool adapts to any type of organisation.

6. Confidentiality and data protection

To ensure the protection of sensitive data, the Gender Pay Gap Calculator implements the following features for collecting and processing the data you enter:

When using the calculator, confidential data such as the company name, employee names or other information that could allow personal identification are not requested.
The data you enter in this tool is not stored on our servers and remains only on your device.
The information is saved exclusively in your browser, on your own computer. This means that even if the platform were compromised, the entered data cannot be accessed by third parties.
Data is saved in two ways: automatically — when moving from one step to another, or manually — by pressing the save-progress button, which allows you to return later to correct or complete the data.

Important note – if your browser has local storage disabled (cookies/local data), progress cannot be preserved between sessions. In this case, we recommend completing the tool in a single session or enabling local storage in your browser settings.

2. Choose the type of salary

Before entering salary data, choose how you want to compare salaries. There are three options:

Average salary

The arithmetic mean of salaries (sum of salaries divided by the number of employees).

Median salary

The value that divides the group into two equal parts (half of the employees have salaries below this value, half above).

Both

Differences for both the salary mean and the salary median will be calculated and displayed.

Explanatory notes and details on choosing the calculation method

1. Average salary

It is calculated by adding all salaries in the group and dividing by the number of employees. It is the simplest and most frequently used method of comparison. Example: If three employees earn 10,000, 12,000 and 14,000 MDL, the average is (10,000 + 12,000 + 14,000) ÷ 3 = 12,000 MDL.

Note: the average can be influenced by extreme values; in such cases, use the median.

2. Median salary

It is the middle value when salaries are ordered from lowest to highest — half of employees earn less, half earn more.

Example: If five employees earn 8,000, 10,000, 12,000, 14,000 and 30,000 MDL, the median is 12,000 MDL — the middle value of the list, not influenced by the 30,000 MDL.

Note: the median reflects more accurately the typical situation in the company when there are large salary differences.

3. Both

If this option is selected, calculations will be performed taking into account both the average salary and the median salary; at the next step, values according to both calculation examples will need to be entered.

3. Fill in the data for each gender

Depending on the salary type chosen in the previous step, enter the necessary data for each gender:

No.	Position or category, group and level	Number of women	Annual average salary (MDL)	Annual median salary (MDL)	Number of men	Annual average salary (MDL)	Annual median salary (MDL)

Explanatory notes and details for completion

1. Number of women

Enter how many women hold the position or how many women are in the selected job group. You can enter 0 if you have no female employees in that position or group.

2. Women's average salary

Specify the value in MDL of the average annual gross salaries of women in the selected position.

Based on company financial data, calculate the sum of all women’s gross salaries and divide by the number of female employees. For example, if five women jointly earn 50,000 MDL per year, average = 50,000 ÷ 5 = 10,000 MDL. Enter this value in the “Average salary” field, women’s column.

The gross salary is the total amount paid by the employer before withholding taxes and social contributions.

3. Women's median salary

Specify the value in MDL of the median annual gross salaries of women in the selected position.

Order the women’s salaries from lowest to highest and choose the middle value. For example, for 9,000, 10,000, 12,000, 13,000 and 16,000 MDL, the median is 12,000 MDL. Enter this in the “Median salary” field, women’s column. If the number of salaries is even, the median is the average of the two middle values.

Gross salary = total amount paid before taxes/social contributions.

4. Number of men

Enter how many men hold the selected position or how many men are in the selected job group. You can enter 0 if you have no male employees in that position or group.

5. Men's average salary

Specify the value in MDL of the average annual gross salaries of men in the selected position.

Based on company financial data, calculate the sum of all men’s gross salaries and divide by the number of male employees. For example, if five men jointly earn 50,000 MDL per year, average = 50,000 ÷ 5 = 10,000 MDL. Enter this value in the “Average salary” field, men’s column.

The gross salary is the total amount paid by the employer before withholding taxes and social contributions.

6. Men's median salary

Specify the value in MDL of the median annual gross salaries of men in the selected position.

Order the men’s salaries from lowest to highest and choose the middle value. For example, for 9,000, 10,000, 12,000, 13,000 and 16,000 MDL, the median is 12,000 MDL. Enter this in the “Median salary” field, men’s column. If the number of salaries is even, the median is the average of the two middle values.

Gross salary = total amount paid before taxes/social contributions.

How does the calculator work?

1. Calculation of the gender pay gap at company level, for all analysed positions

Step 1: Determine the wage fund for each gender within the company:

Women’s Wage Fund = (Women role 1 × Average Salary 1) + (Women role 2 × Average Salary 2) + … + (Women role N × Average Salary N)
Men’s Wage Fund = (Men role 1 × Average Salary 1) + (Men role 2 × Average Salary 2) + … + (Men role N × Average Salary N)

Step 2: Determine the total number of employees for each gender within the company:

Total number of women = (Women_Role_1) + (Women_Role_2) + (Women_Role_3) + … + (Women_Role_N)
Total number of men = (Men_Role_1) + (Men_Role_2) + (Men_Role_3) + … + (Men_Role_N)

Step 3: Calculate the weighted average salary for each gender within the company:

Women’s average salary = Total women’s wage fund / Total number of women
Men’s average salary = Total men’s wage fund / Total number of men

Step 4: Calculate the gender pay gap at company level:

If men’s average salary is higher: Difference (%) = ((Men’s Average Salary – Women’s Average Salary) / Men’s Average Salary) x 100
If women’s average salary is higher: Difference (%) = ((Women’s Average Salary – Men’s Average Salary) / Women’s Average Salary) x 100

2. Calculation formula and example

The calculation compares the average (or median) salary of women with that of men and expresses the difference as a percentage of the higher-paid group. The result indicates how much less, on average, women earn compared to men, or vice versa, based on the data entered.

Gender pay gap
when men have the higher average salary

average salary men - average salary women

average salary men

x 100

Gender pay gap
when women have the higher average salary

average salary women - average salary men

average salary women

x 100

For example, if the average salary of men is 160,000 MDL and the average salary of women is 150,000 MDL, the difference is: (160,000 – 150,000) / 160,000 × 100 = 6.25%, meaning women earn on average 6.25% less than men for that position.