Community living
SATURDAY means business: Largest retirement village operators’ pay revealed
Mar 17 2025
1 min read
Ian Horswill

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has published its latest set of Australian private sector employer gender gaps – releasing for the first time each employers’ average remuneration by pay quartile. 

So, how do Australia’s biggest retirement village operators, based on data from Villages.com.au, perform?  

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