Pay gap between senior managers and lower-level workers could demotivate staff

Since 2008, the pay gap between lower-level workers and senior managers has widened in every region across the world, according to research from global management consultancy Hay Group.

The wage gap between lower-level workers (including skilled manual, clerical, supervisor or graduate entry jobs) and senior managers (heads of departments or equivalent) is now on the rise in twice as many countries as it is falling (42 to 21).

Adam Burden, Senior Consultant at Hay Group believes that even though the job level pay gap has accelerated since the recession, the issue is a “complex trend that has been building for the past 30 years, through economic boom as well as bust”.