Lots of discussion of gender pay gaps and lots of percentages. But not much discussion of what the figures mean. Rather vital if Labour are going to punish those whose gaps are too big.
I imagine most figures are crude unstandardised averages. The main factor is presumably that e.g. more doctors are old men and more nurses are young women, not that male nurses receive more than female nurses.
But I could be Wrong!
Can anyone please enlighten me?
JOHN BIBBY
PS. At least Deloitte have considered some statistical issues:
"Deloitte said that its mean average pay gap was 43.2%, up from 18.2% figure it reported in July. But its median pay gap figure was 15.2%, down from 15.3% in October. The jump in the mean figure is due to the addition of a relatively small number of very highly paid partners, which does not affect the median measure."
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