Guardian’s gender pay gap falls to 4.9%
Difference in median hourly pay between women and men in editorial is 5.9%
Guardian News & Media’s gender pay gap has fallen to 4.9% – calculated by median hourly pay – from 8.4% a year ago, according to figures released by the company on Tuesday.
Women working in editorial at GNM earned 5.9% less an hour on average than men, an improvement on a 6.4% gap a year before on a median basis, which takes the mid-point when all wage rates are lined up from the biggest to smallest. The gap for non-editorial roles, such as marketing and distribution, was 18.6%, down from 19.1% a year before, on the median calculation which reduces the effect of one-off outliers.