The gender pay gap, abbreviated as GPG, refers to the difference in average hourly wages between men and women. The unadjusted gender pay gap is calculated as the difference between the average gross hourly earnings of male and female paid employees as a percentage of average gross hourly earnings of male paid employees.
It is a measure across all jobs and characteristics in Ireland, not of the difference in pay between men and women doing the same job. The GPG in Ireland for was 9. There is also variation in mean paid weekly hours with male employees working on average In economic sectors the highest GPG was in the financial, insurance and real estate sector at The lowest GPG was in the education sector at 2.
The GPG is reversed for part-time workers. The GPG for all employees is higher than either full-time or part-time, this is because part-time workers are predominantly females. See Table 3. While the official measure of the GPG is average differences in earnings between males and females, the median GPG also provides useful and additional insight into differences in earnings between genders.
In Ireland, the median GPG for was 5. Supplementary tables with median GPG comparisons are available throughout this section. Length of service offers a further understanding of the GPG. As years of service increase in the short to medium term the GPG decreases but in the longer run the GPG begins to rise again.
This rises to Occupation and education also provide useful insights into the GPG breakdown with large disparities between occupations and educational attainment. Males working in the process, plant and machine operatives occupation category earned 0. Looking at education, the highest GPG of The GPG for those aged was From the age of 25 the GPG increases with each age category up to the highest of The GPG then decreases to This in part, helps to explain the increase in the GPG with age.
