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title: "Gender pay statistics (Denmark)"
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The **Gender pay statistics (DK)** page under Salary Mapping produces the gender-segregated pay statistics (kønsopdelt lønstatistik) described in the Danish Equal Pay Act, **Ligelønsloven § 5 a** (LBK nr. 156 af 22/02/2019, https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2019/156). The page appears only when the feature is enabled for your organisation, you hold the **Gender pay statistics (Denmark)** permission (under Salary Mapping in the role editor), and the organisation has at least one legal entity in Denmark. Because the statistic covers the whole employer, your role must also be allowed to see pay (salary visibility) and hold the permission for all employees — a role limited to part of the organisation, its reports, itself or a filter cannot open the page.

**One statistic per Danish legal entity.** The law applies to the employer, so each Danish legal entity gets its own statistic. Swedish and other legal entities are never included, and the organisation is never added up as a whole. Employees without a legal entity, or with an unknown one, count towards the headquarters (the same rule as the annual evidence). The year is taken in Danish time. It is produced for the most recently completed calendar year (a 12-month period), and only that one. The running year is not offered, because its last day is in the future (future raises and hires would be counted), and earlier years are not offered either: two periods side by side could be compared to work out one person's pay.

**When it applies.** Under § 5 a it applies to an employer with at least 35 employees, where at least 10 of each gender have the same job function (the same 6-digit DISCO-08 code). For each entity the page shows **Applies** or **Does not apply**, and if not, why (fewer than 35 employees, or no job function with at least 10 women and 10 men).

**What is shown.** Groups are DISCO code × employee group: ordinary employees, managers, and trainees and under-18s. A group is shown only with at least 10 women and 10 men with pay — both the law's rule and our anonymity floor. If your organisation has a stricter minimum group size, that one is used. Each group shows the counts, average and median pay by gender, and the pay gap (men's pay minus women's, as a percentage of men's), in DKK with Danish number formatting. Groups below the limit are never shown; the page only says how many are hidden.

**Method and pay concept.** The statistic covers everyone employed in the entity at any time in the period (external consultants are left out). Pay is fixed monthly pay (base salary plus fixed allowances) as it was valid according to the salary history on the reference date — the last day of the period or the employee's last day of employment — converted to full time using the recorded employment rate. Anyone without a salary history entry valid on that date (for example pay that only came in through a file import, or fixed allowances without dates) is left out of the pay figures but still counts as an employee; the page and the CSV say how many. Their current pay is never used instead. Add a dated salary history entry to include them. Bonus, commission, pension, overtime and one-off payments are not included. Pay in a currency other than the entity's is left out of the pay figures (those people still count as employees). The law does not fix a pay concept; the employer must explain the one used (§ 5 a stk. 4), and the method and pay concept are stated on the page and in the CSV.

**DISCO code and employee group on the employee.** For employees of a Danish legal entity, the Information tab of the employee form shows two optional fields: **DISCO-08 code** (exactly 6 digits, e.g. 251210) and **Employee group (DK)** (Automatic, Ordinary employee, Manager, or Trainee / apprentice). Both can also be imported and exported with the `DISCO CODE` and `DK EMPLOYEE GROUP` columns (headers like "DISCO-kode" and "Medarbejdergruppe" are recognised too). With Automatic, DISCO major group 1 (managers) counts as managers and everyone else as ordinary employees. Anyone under 18 on the reference date is always in the trainees and youth group, based on the birth date. Employees without a DISCO code count toward the 35 but are in no job function; the page warns when codes are missing.

**The employee's own DISCO code (§ 5 b).** An employee may know which DISCO code they are registered under. The code is shown read-only on the employee's own profile (My profile) when one is set.

**CSV export.** **Download CSV (Danish)** gives a semicolon-separated file in Danish for that legal entity, with heading, period, status, headcount, the number of employees without pay on the reference date, currency, pay concept, method, source and the table, in DKK with a decimal comma. The download is recorded in the organisation's audit log, and so is viewing the page (counts only, never pay).

**Guidance, not legal advice.** Danmarks Statistik sends this statistic free of charge before 1 September to employers that report pay data to it (§ 5 a stk. 1). An employer only has to produce it itself, by 31 December, if it does not report to Danmarks Statistik or an employer organisation, or did not receive the statistic by 1 September (§ 5 a stk. 2). The page does not decide which applies to you. Instead of the statistic, an equal-pay report (redegørelse) agreed with the employees can be used (§ 5 a stk. 6); that report is not produced here. The coming Danish law transposing EU Directive 2023/970 has not been adopted and is not part of this page.