A new online tool showing the gender pay gap by occupation has been launched – it shows that women conservation professionals are paid 24% less than men.
The online tool, created by the government and the Office for National Statistics, shows construction and building trades have the highest gender pay gaps with 45%.
The online tool is launched as details are published of how large employers will have to report their gender pay and bonus pay gaps from April 2017. The regulations, which will affect almost 8,000 employers with around 11 million employees, will highlight workplace practices that could be preventing women from reaching the top in their organisations.
The tool uses the latest data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings to provide the most up to date gender pay gap data, which is now at a record low of 18.1%. It can show the gender pay gap by profession, so that the public can see how their job measures up against the national average.
