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Korean listed companies report a median woman-to-man pay ratio of 0.733
2,924 companies · 1,874,591 employees · 22 columns · filings joined to KRX prices
Every listed company in Korea files how many people it employs, how long they stay, and what it pays them — split by gender. Those numbers sit inside annual filings, one company at a time, in Korean. We collect them, join each company to its KRX closing price, and publish the result as one file of 2,924 rows and 22 columns.
These are ratios, not reasons. A filing reports what a company paid; it does not report why. Job mix, seniority mix, part-time share and industry all sit inside a single number, and none of them are disclosed separately. So this page shows you the distribution and nothing else. There is no ranking here, no company is named, and no figure on this page is evidence about any individual employer.
Woman-to-man annual pay per person
A value of 1.00 means the two averages are equal. The median filing reports 0.733. We publish the spread because a single average would read as a norm, and a norm is a thing we have no standing to set.
| Ratio | Companies | Share of measured |
|---|---|---|
| 0–0.6 | 379 | 14.4% |
| 0.6–0.7 | 656 | 24.8% |
| 0.7–0.8 | 817 | 30.9% |
| 0.8–0.9 | 548 | 20.7% |
| 0.9–1 | 160 | 6.1% |
| 1 and up | 81 | 3.1% |
Measured on 2,641 of 2,924 companies. The rest are in the next table, split by why the figure is absent.
Why a pay ratio can be missing — two different reasons
A blank is not a zero, and two blanks are not the same blank. Some filings state that pay is not disclosed by gender; for those, the ratio does not apply. Others simply carry nothing, and for those we could not measure it. Collapsing the two into one number would be the easiest lie in this dataset, so we keep them apart.
| State | Companies | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Reported | 2,641 | The filing splits annual pay per person by gender. |
| Does not apply | 283 | The filing states a reason for not splitting pay by gender. We carry that reason in its own column. |
| Not measured | 0 | Neither a figure nor a stated reason. We write it as unmeasured, never as zero. |
Woman-to-man average tenure
Median 0.831 across 2,635 companies that report tenure for both. Tenure is the axis competitors skip, and it moves for reasons pay does not — hiring waves, spin-offs, and which roles a company grew last.
| Ratio | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0–0.6 | 430 |
| 0.6–0.8 | 748 |
| 0.8–1 | 740 |
| 1–1.2 | 428 |
| 1.2 and up | 289 |
Women as a share of headcount
Median 24.6%. This is a count, not a judgement: it says how many, not whether that is the right many.
| Share of headcount | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0–10% | 450 |
| 10–20% | 684 |
| 20–30% | 525 |
| 30–40% | 390 |
| 40–50% | 304 |
| 50–60% | 229 |
| 60% and up | 211 |
The gap we did not round away
The source universe is 2,924 companies. This file carries 2,924. 0 are missing, and that is a fact about our file rather than about the market.
As of 2026-09-12 this gap is closed — the 45 companies were excluded by a ticker-format bug (alphanumeric codes like "0015S0" were rejected as invalid), not because they were unmatchable. We publish the count either way so a re-opened gap would show here rather than being rounded away.
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How we counted
| Source | Workforce figures that Korean listed companies file with the Financial Supervisory Service, joined to KRX daily closing prices. We collect the filings ourselves and publish them as our licensed file. This page counts the same file we sell, so the free figures and the paid figures cannot disagree. |
|---|---|
| Counted from | korea-people-panel-2026-09-11.csv — the same file we license |
| Rows and columns | 2,924 × 22 |
| Employees covered | 1,874,591; median company 157 |
| Fiscal years present | 2025: 2,924 |
| Built | 2026-09-15 |
| Central figure | Median, not mean. One very large employer would drag a mean and change what the page appears to say. |
- Not a claim about discrimination. The filings carry ratios, not reasons: job mix, seniority mix and contract type all sit inside a single number.
- Not a benchmark. No company is scored, ranked as good, or compared to a norm.
- Not total payroll. Pay columns are annual pay PER PERSON in Korean won.
- Not a complete market. A company appears only when its filing carries the figure.
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