Equal Pay Day

The UK's gender pay gap

Saturday marked 2018's Equal Pay Day in the UK. According to the Fawcett Society, this is the day this year that, when taking the gender pay gap into consideration, women effectively stop getting paid. "“We calculate Equal Pay Day by multiplying the size of the gender pay gap by the number of days in a year, giving the pay gap as a number of days (52 for 2018). We then count this back from the end of the year to get to 10 November.” While there is still significant progress needed, our chart pulls together Office for National Statistics data to show that things most certainly are moving in the right direction.

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This chart shows a timeline of the gender pay gap for median gross hourly earnings of full-time employees in the UK.

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Gender pay gap for full-time median gross hourly earnings in the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2025, by age group
Gender pay gap for median gross hourly earnings in the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2025
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Gender pay gap within the United Kingdom (UK) service industries from 2015 to 2020 by employment type* (in percentage)
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Gender pay gap in full-time employment within the information and communication sector in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2020, by industry*
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Aggregate mean and median gender pay gaps at Barclays in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2018 to 2023
Median weekly earnings for full-time employees in the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2025, by gender (in nominal GBP)

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