"The gender pay gap fell to 8.6% among full-time employees in 2018","" "Figure 1: Gender pay gap for median gross hourly earnings (excluding overtime), UK, April 1997 to 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. Footnotes applicable to all charts in this bulletin can be found in [Section 5: Measuring these data] (https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/genderpaygapintheuk/2018#measuring-these-data). " "Unit","%" "","" "","All","Full-time","Part-time" "1997","27.5","17.4","0.6" "1998","27.3","17.4","-4.0" "1999","26.9","16.4","-2.6" "2000","26.7","16.3","-3.5" "2001","26.3","16.4","-3.7" "2002","26.9","15.5","-0.6" "2003","25.1","14.6","-1.3" "2004","24.7","14.5","-2.6" "2005","22.6","13.0","-3.0" "2006","22.2","12.8","-2.2" "2007","21.9","12.5","-2.2" "2008","22.5","12.6","-3.7" "2009","22.0","12.2","-2.5" "2010","19.8","10.1","-4.3" "2011","20.2","10.5","-5.1" "2012","19.6","9.5","-5.5" "2013","19.8","10.0","-5.9" "2014","19.2","9.6","-5.5" "2015","19.3","9.6","-6.8" "2016","18.2","9.4","-6.1" "2017","18.4","9.1","-5.3" "2018","17.9","8.6","-4.4"