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Always wondered if you’re drawing the same salary as your male counterparts for the same amount and type of work? Well, you’re probably paid less.
According to this The Straits Times article from last month, a study by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) found that the unadjusted gender pay gap rose from 16 per cent in 2002 to 16.3 per cent in 2018.
That said, the adjusted gender pay gap has narrowed from 8.8 per cent in 2002 to 6 per cent in 2018. An adjusted gender pay gap takes into account the differences in age, education, occupation, industry and the number of hours put in between the genders.
Not that the existence of a gender pay gap in Singapore should be any surprise, though. Glassdoor, a job site that also provides insight on company working cultures, released a report in March last year about how men generally earn more than women here. It used a sample of 5,096 salaries of Singaporean employees with an average age of 33 and found that:
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