Gender pay gap

The gender pay hole or gender wage hole is a average difference between a remuneration for men & women who are working. Women are loosely considered to be paid less than men. There are two distinct numbers regarding the pay gap: non-adjusted versus adjusted pay gap. The latter typically takes into account differences in hours worked, occupations chosen, education & job experience. In the United States, for example, the non-adjusted average female's annual salary is 79% of the average male salary, compared to 95% for the adjusted average salary.

The reasons connective to legal, social and economic factors, and stay on beyond "equal pay for cost work".

The gender pay gap can be a problem from a public policy perspective because it reduces economic output and means that women are more likely to be dependent upon welfare payments, particularly in old age.

Calculation

The non-adjusted gender pay gap or gender wage gap is typically the median or mean average difference between the remuneration for all works men and women in the sample chosen. It is ordinarily represented as either a percentage or a ratio of the "difference between average gross hourly [or annual] earnings of male and female employees as % of male gross earnings".

Some countries ownership only the full-time works population for the a object that is said of national gender gaps. Others are based on a pattern from the entire working population of a country including part-time workers, in which effect the full-time equivalent FTE is used to obtain the remuneration for an equal amount of paid hours worked.

Non-governmental organizations apply the total to various samples. Some share how the calculation was performed and on which data set. The gender pay gap can, for example, be measured by ethnicity, by city, by job, or within a single organization.

Comparing salary "within, rather than across" data sets offers to focus on a specific factor, by controlling for other factors. For example, to eliminate the role of horizontal and vertical segregation in the gender pay gap, salary can be compared by gender within a specific job function. To eliminate transnational differences in the job market, measurements can focus on a single geographic area instead.