Equal Pay: Gender
(asked on 11th May 2023) - View Source
Question
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the average gender pay gap for each of the past five years.
Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
This question was answered on 8th June 2023
Since 1997 the Office for National Statistics has published data on the national gender pay gap annually. Their latest release can be accessed here:
The headline measure of the median gap for all employees stood at 14.9% in 2022, down from 17.8% in 2018. The median national gender pay gap for each of the past five years was:
Year | Median gender pay gap for all employees (%) |
2018 | 17.8 |
2019 | 17.4 |
2020 | 14.9 |
2021 | 15.1 |
2022 | 14.9 |