{"id":5869,"date":"2024-11-23T21:15:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T21:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2024-11-25T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T10:59:53","slug":"when-is-equal-pay-day-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/when-is-equal-pay-day-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay Gaps #31 – When is Equal Pay Day in 2024?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When is #EqualPayDay<\/strong> in the UK in 2024?<\/p>\n

No-one knows is the correct answer.\u00a0 That’s because there are no national measurements of the extent of unequal pay in the UK e.g. a woman being paid less than a man for the doing the same job.<\/p>\n

If you see anyone talking about “Equal Pay Day<\/em><\/span>“, they are in fact talking about #GenderPayGapDay<\/strong><\/span>, the day on which the typical women “starts working for free”<\/span><\/em> when compared with the typical man irrespective of what job they are doing.\u00a0 Of course, as everyone knows, gender pay gaps do not measure the extent of unequal pay in any shape or form<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For 2024, the ONS<\/strong> <\/span>(Office of National Statistics) has published 30 different gender pay gap statistics<\/a>.\u00a0 This means we could have 30 different gender pay gap days\u00a0so how do we decide which one to use?<\/p>\n

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Where to find 30 gender pay gaps<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

ONS<\/strong><\/span> use their ASHE<\/strong><\/span> (Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings<\/strong>) to estimate pay by sex as of April 5th of each year.\u00a0 For more details on ASHE<\/strong><\/span> and links to the ONS <\/strong><\/span>website, please read my article “Are we there yet?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>”<\/p>\n

These estimates are typically published at the end of October of each year in two different places –<\/p>\n

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  1. Gender Pay Gap in the UK<\/strong><\/a> – this is an annual report showing some of the 30 pay gap statistics broken down by a variety of categories.\u00a0 The most common pay gap quoted is based on median hourly pay excluding overtime.\u00a0 However, the main data download here<\/a> only shows the pay gap, not the pay figures by sex used to calculate the pay gap.<\/li>\n
  2. Pay & Hours Data by Sex<\/a><\/strong> – here you can download a zipped file of spreadsheets containing the data used to calculate the 30 pay gap statistics.\u00a0 In addition, these files also show the percentiles of the distributions of men and women’s pay which is data I have not yet made use of.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All charts and tables in the article are based on Pay & Hours Data link above.<\/p>\n

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    How did the ONS arrive at 30 pay gap statistics?<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

    The 30<\/strong> statistics are the outcome of every combination of these three factors –<\/p>\n