Labour Force Survey
📸: Tabulation of hourly pay by Labour Force Survey
Comparison of average hourly pay around the world
The average hourly pay measures the wage inequalities between different ethnicities in the United Kingdom. From 2013 to 2017, the wage inequality gap between most ethnic groups had narrowed, allowing everyone to be paid equally. However, people from the Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic groups experience the lowest average hourly pay for all 5 years and have a drastic gap between the second lowest average hourly pay ethnic group, people from other Asian ethnic groups of £1.53. This highlights the social prejudice against one’s ethnicity or national origin, which thus resulted in them being depleted to the right of equal pay which may result in not enough money to meet all their needs and have little to none disposable income left to use for their own leisure.
