Women earn more than men in just 11 parts of Great Britain - find out the gender pay gap in your area using our interactive map. The UK’s gender pay gap stands at 14.9%, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics.
That’s the joint lowest it’s ever been, but still means that men are earning far more than women on average. The average male wage in the UK was £15.93 per hour in 2022, compared to the female average of £13.55 per hour.
That’s a difference of £2.38 per hour, or 14.9%. There are, however, 11 local authority areas where the women who live there earn more than the men on average.
The biggest gap in women’s favour is in Eastbourne where they earn 6.6% more than men on average. The average female wage in the south coast town was £14.60 an hour compared to £13.69 an hour for male workers.
Dundee had the next largest difference in women’s favour. Female workers there earned an average of £14.34 per hour compared to £13.76 per hour for their male counterparts, a difference of 4.2%.
In Thanet the difference was 3.6%, in Stevenage it was 3.5%, and in Ceredigion it was 3.4%. Completing the 11 areas are Lewisham (3.1%), Burnley (2.8%), High Peak (1.3%), Shetland Islands (1.2%), Barnet (also 1.2%), and North Ayrshire (1.1%).
You can check out how your local area compares using our interactive map:
Forest of Dean has the largest gender pay gap of any local authority in Great Britain, according to the ONS data. Men there earn an average of 36.9% more than women.
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The average male wage there was £18.65 per hour compared to £11.76 per hour for women. That’s followed by Hart where the gender pay gap is 36.0%. Melton has the next largest gap at 33.8%, followed by Brentwood (33.7%), Kingston upon Thames (33.7%), Hyndburn (33.5%), South Staffordshire (32.6%), and Tewkesbury (32.4%).
