On Thursday 9 April, Eurostat, the European Commission’s Directorate-General responsible for statistical information, published a study on the EU Publications website based on data from the 2022 Structure of Earnings Survey. The Survey details the extent of the gender pay gap in the European Union and the factors contributing to it.
This Study contributes to the monitoring of European policies on equal pay and allows us to distinguish between employment-related pay gaps and those that remain unexplained in the data.
In 2022, women earnt 12.2% less than men on average. A small portion of this gap, accounting for 1.9 percentage points, can be explained by real differences in the jobs held or working conditions, such as women being more likely to work part-time or in lower-paying sectors.
However, even after taking these factors into account, there is still a 10.3% gap between women’s and men’s salaries in the European Union, and this cannot be explained by characteristics observed in the data, such as age, education or job type.
The Study also shows that differences between economic activities account for 3.7 percentage points of the total gap, and working time accounts for 1.5 percentage points, while women’s educational attainment narrows the gap by approximately 1.2 percentage points.
The report: https://aeur.eu/f/li5 (Original version in French by Nithya Paquiry)