"Figure 4: The largest fall in the gender pay gap since before the pandemic is among managers, directors and senior officials","" "Gender pay gap for full-time median gross hourly earnings (excluding overtime), by occupation, UK, April 2019 to 2021","" "","" "Notes","1. Estimates for 2021 data are provisional. 2. Employees are on adult rates, pay is unaffected by absence unless furloughed. 3. Full-time is defined as employees working more than 30 paid hours per week (or 25 or more for the teaching professions). 4. Figures represent the difference between men's and women's hourly earnings as a percentage of men's hourly earnings. " "Unit","%" "","" "","2019","2020","2021" "Managers directors and senior officials","16.3","9.3","10.2" "Professional occupations","10.2","10.1","9.2" "Associate professional and technical occupations","11.0","11.0","10.9" "Skilled trades occupations","4.9","5.7","5.8" "Administrative and secretarial occupations","22.3","19.7","21.9" "Process plant and machine operatives","8.0","6.5","6.7" "Sales and customer service occupations","4.3","0.8","2.9" "Caring leisure and other service occupations","18.1","14.1","16.1" "Elementary occupations","11.0","8.3","11.0"