Gender Wage Gap Calculator

The gender pay gap compares the typical pay of women and men. The unadjusted (raw) gap simply takes average or median earnings of all employed women and men, without accounting for job, hours, experience or education. It does not mean a woman earns less than a man in the same job – that is “unequal pay for equal work”, which is illegal in the EU, UK and US – but it captures everything that pushes women’s earnings down: occupational segregation, part-time work, career breaks for children, fewer women in senior roles and remaining discrimination.

Countries measure it differently. Eurostat compares mean gross hourly earnings in firms with ten or more employees; the UK’s Office for National Statistics uses median hourly pay of full-time employees excluding overtime; the US Bureau of Labor Statistics compares median weekly earnings of full-time workers; the OECD uses median full-time earnings. The gaps are therefore indicators, not exact comparisons between countries.

Choose your country and sex and enter your pay: the calculator applies the national gap to show what the same position on the pay ladder would earn for the other sex.

How to use the Gender Wage Gap Calculator

1. Country
2. Gender pay gap
3. I am a…
4. My pay
5. Pay period

Results update as you type, every field has its own unit menu, and everything is calculated in your browser.

How it works

The calculator looks up the unadjusted gap g for the chosen country. A woman’s salary S corresponds to S ÷ (1 − g) for men; a man’s salary corresponds to S × (1 − g) for women. Equal Pay Day is the gap expressed in days of the year.

Worked example

Germany’s unadjusted gap in 2024 was 15.6%. A woman earning €50,000 a year is at the same point of the distribution as a man earning 50,000 ÷ (1 − 0.156) = €59,242 – a difference of €9,242 a year. Put the other way round, a man on €50,000 corresponds to a woman on 50,000 × 0.844 = €42,200. The gap equals 57 days of the year; Equal Pay Day falls on 9 March (15.6 ÷ 84.4 × 365 = 67.5 days into the year).

Gender pay gap by country

Inputs explained

What each result means

• Difference per pay period = abs([Equivalent pay for the other sex] – [My pay])
• Difference per year = abs([Equivalent pay for the other sex] – [My pay])×[Pay period]
• Women earn per 1.00 earned by men = 1 – [Unadjusted gender pay gap]÷100
• Days women work “for free” each year = [Unadjusted gender pay gap]÷100×365
• Equal Pay Day 2026 (women catch up with men’s previous-year pay) = date(2026, 1, 1) + round([Unadjusted gender pay gap]÷(100 – [Unadjusted gender pay gap])×365)