“Life costs more if you are disabled. Yet many disabled workers don’t get paid fairly, or have the same opportunities to progress their careers.”
Disabled workers are now paid 13.8 per cent less on average each year than non-disabled workers, new figures show, sparking fresh calls for mandatory disability pay gap reporting.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show non-disabled employees earn a median of 14.03 per hour, and disabled employees earn a median of 12.10 per hour, or 1.93 less per hour – a gap of over 3,500 per year based on a 35-hour week.
The disability pay gap has widened since 2014, when disabled employees earnt 11.7 per cent less than non-disabled employees – but has fallen slightly, since last year’s figure of 16.5 per cent.
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