Estonia’s gender pay gap persists as women earn 13.2 percent less in 2024

Last year, the gross hourly wages of female employees in Estonia were 13.2 percent lower than those of male employees, Statistics Estonia said Thursday.On year, the country’s gender pay gap widened by 0.1 percentage points.

The gender pay gap was over 20 percent in five economic activities, Statistics Estonia analyst Sigrid Saagpakk said in a press release.

These included financial and insurance activities (25.5 percent), information and communication (24.4 percent), wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (23.5 percent), human health and social work activities (20.7 percent) and manufacturing (20.2 percent).

Compared with 2023, the gender pay gap in other service activities changed the most, from -18.4 percent in 2023 to 14.8 percent in 2024.

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