As a crown-owned company, in 2022 NIWA commenced participation in the New Zealand government’s Kia Toipoto programme, aimed at closing gender and ethnic pay gaps.
A joint NIWA/Public Service Association Pay Equity Working Group commenced work in mid-2022, and has met regularly since, completing an annual organisational gender and ethnic pay gap analysis, examining possible drivers of NIWA’s pay gaps by level where they exist, and identifying and implementing actions to address these.