Government papers: Understanding the gender pay gap in the UK
Key findings:
- The gender pay gap for full-time workers is entirely in favour of men for all occupations; however, occupational crowding has an effect since those occupations with the smallest gender pay gap have almost equal employment shares between men and women.
- The gap for full-time workers remains small at younger ages; however, from age 40 onwards the gap widens reaching its peak between ages 50 to 59.
- In 2017, women’s pay growth in respect of age was lower than men’s pay growth and also stopped growing at a younger age.
- Men who have worked for more than 20 years in the same organisation earn 20.8 per cent more compared with those men who worked for no longer than one year; for women, pay is 17.5 per cent higher.
- Men working in the chief executives and senior officials occupation earn almost four times more than men in elementary occupations; for women, this is almost 3.5 times more.
