A comparison of salaries of the best-paid women and their male counterparts shows that, on average, the salaries of these women only reach 78% of the average salary of the highest earning men.
To a large extent, this is due to the fact that women much more frequently occupy managerial positions in the less progressive branches of industry, such as administration and specialist non-technical work, paylab.com says in a press release sent to Budapest Business Journal.
A closer look at average gross salaries reveals the gender gap: in Budapest, the average well-paid male employee can expect HUF 417,000, whereas for women it is HUF 330,000; outside the capital the figures are HUF 309,000 for men, and HUF 250,000 for women.
Paylab.com found the most significant gender-based salary differences in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where the average wage difference is 28-30% in favor of men. In contrast, Croatia and Slovenia are the countries with the smallest difference of 10-11% on average. (Slovenia has the highest percentage of women in the top earning category, but at just 8%.)
In this comparison, Hungary is closer to the first group, with a 26.4% wage gap in Budapest and 23.6% outside the capital.
Regarding the number of women who belong to the low-income group, their share is highest in Slovakia (18%), the Czech Republic (16%), Bulgaria (16%) and Finland (16%). Hungary has a share of 15%.
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