2025 Gender Pay Gap Reporting
Like many other countries, Ireland has recently announced mandatory Gender Pay Gap reporting for organisations, in an attempt to combat gender inequality in the workplace. This legislation will be a starting point for many organisations to delve deeper into their workforce.
MakoData Gender Pay Gap Success
MakoData has helped hundreds of organisations meet their Gender Pay Gap returns across the UK and Ireland. We have worked with many different organisations from Local Government to International Retail brands. Our solution can be adapted to meet the needs of your organisation.
“Being able to report across all of our HR data, including Gender Pay Gap has been a big win for us. It opens up a world of possibilities with our HR analytics and reporting”
Sean Walsh – HR Executive – Enterprise Ireland
The MakoData Solution
The MakoData solution is based on your existing HR and Pay data, and is built to support all aspects of Gender Pay Gap reporting. We will support you fully with configuration, production of the required outputs, and ongoing changes that may be required based on changes in your organisation or person data.
We have addressed the challenges of speed, complexity and cost. We put stunning visualisations and actionable insights in the hands of business users, providing intuitive self-service analytics capabilities that promote and support data discovery in your organisation.
Our solution is out-of-the-box, getting you up and running fast without the need for time consuming or expensive implementation efforts.
The MakoData solution will:
- Allow easy configuration for key reporting inputs e.g. employees to be included/excluded for relevant and full pay relevant, inclusion of required pay codes/elements, configuration of rules for calculating hourly rates across employee/contract types etc.
- Automate production of the required metrics to meet the legislative return in an easily exportable format
- Provide Validation tools to allow checking of relevant pay values at an individual employee level where required, along with checking and validation tools for key calculations e.g. hourly rate
- Supply a suite of dashboards and analytics to support the process of managing and impacting the pay gap in your organisation:
- Trending key metrics over time to track ongoing performance
- Highlighting areas, groups, categories etc which are contributing most significantly to the gender pay gap in your organisation
- Identify areas of your organisation which are doing best/worst, and understand why they are different
Who does this apply to?
The regulations require employers to publish information relating to the remuneration of their employees and highlight any differences in remuneration based only on their gender.
For 2022 and 2023, these regulations only applied to organisations with 250+ employees but for 2024 Organisations with over 50 employees are being asked to report on their Gender Pay Gap for the first time in 2025.

Find out more about Gender Pay Gap Reporting with MakoData.
The MakoData solution is based on your existing HR and Pay data, and is built to support all aspects of Gender Pay Gap reporting. We will support you fully with configuration, production of the required outputs, and ongoing changes that may be required based on changes in your organisation or person data.
Please let us know if you would like to see the MakoData Gender Pay Gap solution in action, and we will arrange a time to show you the solution and answer any questions you may have.