Compared to the year before, the unadjusted gender pay gap has reduced by 0.6 percentage points.
The gap in earnings of males and females is affected by various social and economic factors – the number of men and women in a specific economic activity, their occupation and work duties, educational attainment, age, service increment, number of hours worked, as well as labor supply and demand trends and structural changes in the labor market. The indicator is calculated without excluding the effect of these factors, which might explain the reasons for the gap.
In 2023 the largest unadjusted gender pay gap was observed in information and communication – 33.5 %, financial and insurance activities – 30.6 %, trade – 27.8 % and arts, entertainment and recreation (denoting that women on average earn 27.6 % less per hour than men).
In terms of sectoral breakdown, gender pay gap in private sector was 0.6 percentage points larger than in public (17.6 % and 17.0 %, respectively). Women working full time earned 19.5 % less than men, while among those working part time the gender gap was twice as small – 9.3 %.
As regards age, the smallest gender gap in hourly earnings was recorded in the age group under 25 (9.5 %) and among elderly, namely, people aged 65 and over (10.7 %), while the largest – in the age group 35–44 (23.2 %).
In 2022, the EU average unadjusted gender pay gap constituted 12.7 %. The largest gap was recorded in Estonia (21.3 %).
