You Will Not Believe The Gross-Salary-Truth Of These 5 Indian Working Sectors

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You Will Not Believe The Gross-Salary-Truth Of These 5 Indian Working Sectors

JWB Post

July 26, 2016

Monster India along with Paycheck.in and IIM-Ahmedabad has released a study on gender pay gap. According to this, men reportedly earn a median gross salary of Rs. 288.68 per hour and women earn only Rs. 207.85.

The report talks about the truth of these 5 major industries – IT, Manufacturing, Health services, Education & Research, and Transport & Communications. Sadly, all these sectors are man-dominated and haven’t really been recognizing their women employees.

Check out:

The IT industry

The gender gap in the IT industry is the most with 34%. While men take home a median gross salary of Rs. 360.9 per hour, women earn just Rs. 239.6 per hour.

The Healthcare, Caring services and Social Work industry

With 26% gender pay gap, men earn a median gross salary of Rs. 240.6 per hour, whereas women earn Rs. 178.3 per hour.

Education & Research industry

The gender pay gap in this industry stands at 22% with men earning a median gross salary of Rs. 220 per hour, and women earning just Rs.171 per hour.

Manufacturing industry

The manufacturing industry bags the first prize for the highest gender pay gap with a difference of 34.9% In this industry, men earn a median gross salary of Rs. 259.8 per hour, while the womenfolk take home only Rs. 192.5 per hour.

Transports, logistics & communications

Although the industry boasts of the least percentage of gender pay gap, we cannot oversee the fact that it still exists. With 17.7%, men in the industry earn a median gross salary of Rs. 240.6 per hour and women earn Rs. 178.3 per hour.

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