Inequality | 8 in 10 of the UK's most popular jobs have a gender pay gap

Eight in 10 of the UK’s most popular job roles have a gender pay gap in favour of men, new data has found.

This is according to CIPHR, which has reviewed the latest stats from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) regarding men’s and women’s median hourly rates of pay to find out which occupations, industries and geographical locations have the widest and smallest gender pay gaps in 2021.

The ONS website explained that the gender pay gap is “calculated as the difference between average hourly earnings (excluding overtime) of men and women as a proportion of men’s average hourly earnings (excluding overtime)”.

What the data found