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

Information about disability in the labour market from the Annual Population Survey 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

A time series line chart of median hourly pay for disabled and non-disabled people from 2014 to 2019. There are separate lines for non-disabled people and disabled people. There are also two arrows with labels at the start and end of the series showing the disability pay gap. Both lines increase over the period.  The line for disabled people is consistently below the non-disabled line and is more volatile than the non-disabled line.  The pay gap has widened over the period and this is reflected by the arrow at the start of the period being smaller than the arrow at the end.

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

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