Gender pay gap 'is as high as 25%' in parts of Wales

Figures published by the organisation representing trade unions reveals the local authorities with the highest levels of pay inequality in the country.

The TUC released their analysis ahead of International Women’s Day on Sunday 8.

The biggest gender pay gaps in Wales are:

  • Torfaen: 25.6%.

  • Blaenau Gwent: 23.8%.

  • Rhondda: 21.9%.

The TUC estimates that it takes the average woman in Wales a year (366 days) to earn what the average man earns in just over 10 months (313 days).

However, in some parts of Wales this gap is worse. In Torfaen it takes the average woman a year to earn what the average man earns in just nine months.

The TUC says the gender pay gap by local authority is as follows:

  • Torfaen: 25.6

  • Blaenau Gwent: 23.8

  • Rhondda Cynon Taf: 21.9

  • Vale of Glamorgan: 21.8

  • Flintshire: 21.4

  • Neath Port Talbot: 20.9

  • Bridgend: 20.2

  • Cardiff: 18.7

  • Isle of Anglesey: 17.7

  • Pembrokeshire: 17.1

  • Wrexham: 12.7

  • Caerphilly: 12.7

  • Powys: 12.3

  • Newport: 12.3

  • Ceredigion: 10.9

  • Swansea: 10.8

  • Denbighshire: 9.1

  • Monmouthshire: 7.3

  • Gwynedd: 5.7

  • Conwy: 2.4

  • Carmarthenshire: -0.2

  • Merthyr Tydfil: -10.7