Labour Market Statistics for Scotland by Disability: January to December 2022

Disability Pay Gap

Data are only provided to 2019 for this measure. The accuracy of income weights are affected by an issue with the coding of occupations identified by ONS. ONS have advised earnings information should be used with caution for later years and we have chosen to omit the data until the issue is resolved.

The disability pay gap is calculated as median hourly pay of non-disabled employees minus median hourly pay of disabled employees expressed as a percentage of median hourly pay of non-disabled employees.

The median hourly pay for non-disabled employees has been steadily increasing since 2014 to £12.63 in 2019. Similarly, the median hourly pay for disabled employees has increased since 2014 to £10.58 in 2019. Despite being higher than in 2014, the median pay for disabled employees has seen years where median hourly pay has decreased. The median pay for non-disabled employees has increased in every year in the series.

Although there are fluctuations in the disability pay gap, the gap has widened from 12.8 per cent in 2014 to 16.2 per cent in 2019. The gap in 2019 was 3.4 percentage points wider than in 2014 and 7.9 pp wider than in 2018.

Chart 8: Median hourly pay for employees aged 16 to 64 by disability, Scotland, 2014 to 2019

Source: Annual Population Survey, January to December data, ONS