- Name
- Average hourly earnings of female and male employees by occupation, age and persons with disabilities.
- Indicator purpose
- The purpose of this indicator is to discern if pay equality is respected.
- Abstract
- This indicator provides information on the mean hourly earnings from paid employment of employees by sex, occupation, age and disability status. Earnings are a key aspect of quality of employment and living conditions. Information on hourly earnings disaggregated by various classifications provides some indication of the extent to which pay equality is respected or achieved.
- Contact organization / person
- Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB)
- Unit of measure
- Percentage (%)
- Other characteristics
- For international comparability purposes, statistics of earnings used relate to employees’ gross remuneration, i.e. the total before any deductions are made by the employer in respect of taxes, contributions of employees to social security and pension schemes, life insurance premiums, union dues and other obligations of employees. Data on earnings should be presented on the basis of the arithmetic average of the hourly earnings of all employees.
- Classification used
- Earnings refer to the gross remuneration in cash or in kind paid to employees, as a rule at regular intervals, for time worked or work done together with remuneration for time not worked, such as annual vacation, other type of paid leave or holidays. Earnings exclude employers’ contributions in respect of their employees paid to social security and pension schemes and also the benefits received by employees under these schemes. Earnings also exclude severance and termination pay.
- Disaggregation
- is by sex, occupation, age and disability status.
- Key statistical concepts
- Statistics on average hourly earnings by sex can be used to calculate the gender pay gap, as follows:
Gender pay gap = (〖Average hourly earnings〗_Men- 〖Average hourly earnings〗_Women)/〖Average hourly earnings〗_Men x 100
- Recommended uses
- This indicator can be used to measure the mean hourly earnings from paid employment of employees by sex, occupation, age and disability status.
- Other comments
- All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.
- Target 2030
- 5. By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
