Wage gap in favour of women, but disparities persist

To mark International Women's Day, STATEC has published the latest figures on the gender pay gap. They show that, in 2022, the gap will be -0.7% (in favor of women) when average hourly earnings are considered, but that the gap will still tilt in favor of men when annual earnings are considered, given that a small percentage of men earn very high salaries and bonuses, and that women work more part-time. 

As the STATEC showed last year, the European indicator of the gender pay gap (GPG) changed sign in Luxembourg for the first time in 2021, reaching -0.2%.

It's worth noting that this indicator, calculated by the STATEC based on a common European methodology established by Eurostat, represents the gap between the average gross hourly wage of men and women, expressed as a percentage of that of men. A positive figure indicates that the average wage of men exceeds that of women, while a negative figure indicates that the average wage of women is higher than that of men.

With -0.7% in 2022, this gap continued to tilt further in favor of women, unlike all other European Union countries, where the average hourly wage of men still exceeds that of women.