Disability Pay Gap Hits £4,300 A Year

New TUC analysis released today shows that workers with disabilities effectively stop earning from today as a result of pay disparity with non-disabled workers.

In percentage terms the disability pay gap is now 17.2% – meaning that non-disabled employees earn on average £2.35 an hour more than disabled workers.

The CWU welcomes the introduction of mandatory disability pay gap reporting as announced by the new Labour Government.

The pay gap effectively means that, the average disabled worker is now effectively working for free for nearly two months – from today until the end of the year.

The analysis also shows that the pay gap is even starker for disabled women. Median pay for non-disabled men is nearly a third (31%) higher than it is for disabled women.

Jonathan Bellshaw, one of the CWU’s NEC Disability Leads commented “There should not be pay gap just because someone has a disability. It is time to close the gap once and for all.”