Until then, women work free of charge when comparing their annual income with that of men. The gender Pay GAP – currently 12.2 percent – has steadily decreased in recent years. It was still 15.2 percent in 2020 (February 25). Vienna has the lowest salary differences, Vorarlberg the highest; In the EU comparison, Austria is in the second last place.
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Within Austria, the wage gap is very different from region to region. In Vienna she was the smallest last year. However, the federal capital deteriorated from 3.2 to 4.3 percent, the Equal Pay Day took place on January 16. Vorarlberg’s bottom improved from 21.1 to 20.0 percent, the Equal Pay Day will only take place here on March 14th. In between, Lower Austria with a gender Pay GAP of 11.7 percent (February 12), Burgenland with 12.5 percent (February 15), Carinthia with 12.8 percent (February 16), Salzburg with 14.8 percent (February 23), Styria with 15.5 percent (February 26), Tyrol with 16.4 percent (March 1) and Upper Austria with 17.2 percent (March 4).
EU comparison: higher wage gap only in Estonia
The “Business and Professional Women Austria” network is used to calculate the median of the annual gross income of full -time employees – unlike the Equal Pay Day at the end of the year, which works with average income. The latest figures of the statistics Austria come from 2023. In order to close the gender Pay GAP, the network, among other things, calls for income transparency, a tax favor for companies that have been proven to pay the same wages for equivalent work, the upgrading of low -wage sectors and the nationwide expansion childcare.
Eurostat – the statistical office of the EU -, on the other hand, calculates the gender pay gap based on hourly wages. With 18.4 percent, Austria is the country with the second highest gender -specific wage gap – only Estonia is even worse at 21.3 percent. The Czech Republic ends up in third -to -last place with 17.9 percent, in the fourth last last Germany and Slovakia with 17.7 percent. At the top, on the other hand, Luxembourg can be found with a reverse gender pay gap of -0.7 percent, Italy with 4.3 and Romania with 4.5 percent. Overall, the EU has a wage gap of 12.7 percent, the latest data date from 2022.
Source: Nachrichten
