Data Insight: New evidence on gender pay gaps in Great Britain

Citation

Scarfe R, Singleton C, Bryson A, Forth J, Phan V, Ritchie F & Whittard D (2025) Data Insight: New evidence on gender pay gaps in Great Britain. Administrative Data Research UK (Economic and Social Research Council). https://www.adruk.org/news-publications/publications-reports/data-insight-new-evidence-on-gender-pay-gaps-in-great-britain/. https://www.adruk.org/news-publications/publications-reports/data-insight-new-evidence-on-gender-pay-gaps-in-great-britain/

Abstract
This Data Insight by the Wage and Employment Dynamics team presents new evidence on the size of the gender pay gap in Great Britain. First, it presents revised estimates of the gender pay gap in hourly earnings for full-time employees on average and across the wage distribution from 2004 to 2023. The analysis uses new weights for the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) that account for non-random missing employer responses to the survey. Second, for the tax year 2018-19, we show the differences in men’s and women’s weekly, monthly and quarterly employee earnings – aggregating across all jobs – using tax records from the linked ASHE- HM Revenue and Customs Pay-As-You-Earn (HMRC PAYE) dataset.