Progress towards closing the gender pay gap resumed in the year to April 2009 (PDF format, 147.8K) (external website), according to headline findings from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) 2009, published today.
When measured in terms of median hourly earnings excluding overtime (the Government's traditionally preferred measure for calculating the gender pay gap) the gender pay gap stands at 12.2% as at April 2009, based on male hourly earnings of £12.97, compared with £11.39 for women.
The latest data therefore represent a narrowing of 0.4 percentage points when compared with the 12.6% gender pay gap recorded a year ago. The ASHE 2008 showed that progress towards closing the gender pay gap had gone into reverse over the year to April 2008.
Each year, the ASHE survey from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) presents the most compendious and precise resource for UK pay benchmarking data.
The ASHE 2009 also records a 2.0% rise in median gross weekly pay for full-time UK workers over the year to April 2009. This is 3.2 percentage points above the rate of headline retail prices index (RPI) inflation (subscription required) over the same period (-1.2%).
XpertHR's official pay data pages (subscription required) will be updated in the coming weeks to provide easily accessible pay benchmarking resources, including detailed earnings breakdowns by occupation, industry sector and geographical region.
- Has your organisation recently carried out an annual pay review? If so, and if it has now been settled, please get in touch so that we can add your organisation's pay award to the IRS database.
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