Ireland’s Gender Pay Gap Portal has now been fully launched, allowing members of the public to view and compare gender pay gap information uploaded by Irish businesses.
What is the Gender Pay Gap Portal?
The Gender Pay Gap Portal was initially launched in November 2025, allowing employers to publish their gender pay gaps reports to the site on a voluntary basis.
This year, however, it will be mandatory for all businesses with 50 or more employees to upload their report to the new portal. Up until this point, companies were required to post their gender pay gap reports either on their own website or somewhere else that is accessible to the public.
What is gender pay gap reporting?
The Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021 requires businesses to publish a report detailing the hourly gender pay gap in their business, across a range of specified metrics. The Act is part of a wider initiative to improve gender equality in Ireland and, more specifically, aims to bring about greater pay parity between men and women.
As well as submitting statistics and figures on gender-based pay information within the business, employers have also been required to publish an explanation for any gender pay gap that does arise from those findings.
Initially, when the requirement was introduced in 2022, only companies with 250 employees or more were required to submit a gender pay gap report. This threshold has been increasing gradually each year and, as of 2025, any company with 50 employees or more is required to file an annual report.
Reporting deadline
In 2025, the Government moved the reporting deadline to November, rather than in December as was the case in previous years.
Employers are required to gather their gender pay gap data on a ‘snapshot’ date in June, and to publish those results in November. The exact reporting date will depend on the snapshot date selected by the employer. For example, if a business chooses 5 June as their snapshot date, they will be required to publish the results on the portal by 5 November.
What does this mean for my business?
If your business has 50 or more employees, and you are therefore required to submit a gender pay gap report in November, it is crucial that you are familiar with the publishing method that will be required. Now that the online portal has been launched, you will be obligated to submit your report directly to the site.
The nature of the portal will also make gender pay gap reports more easily accessible to the public than ever before. The portal is easy to use, and anyone will be able to search the database. This new system will make it significantly easier to compare multiple reports at once and draw conclusions and comparisons between them.
This increased level of public scrutiny acts as further motivation for employers to assess their internal salary information and ensure that they have implemented fair and compliant pay structures.
