Gender salary in engineering gap has increased by £3K finds engineering survey
August 2023 - Engineering
Gender salary gap has increased by £3K finds engineering survey: A survey of engineers has found that despite seeing a narrowing of the gender pay gap in 2022, the gap has now widened from £3K to £6K.
The Engineer Salary Survey is conducted annually by The Engineer, in partnership with CBS Butler, with the purpose of unearthing how much engineers are earning across a variety of sectors, how satisfied they are in their roles, and how they feel about the broader industry.
The 2023 survey revealed some interesting variations across levels of seniority. While junior and graduate female engineers earned on average £2,000 more than their male colleagues, this was not the case at senior or manager level where female salaries were £2,000 (on average) less than male respondents. Furthermore, female engineers at director level or above were seeing greatly reduced salaries compared to their male counterparts (£63K versus 80K), although it is noted in the report that the sample size in this group was limited to just five female respondents.
The research also found that there is still a significant gender imbalance within the industry, with female engineers making up just 9% of the overall survey sample, rising from 6% in 2022. This, says The Engineer, is significantly less than the 16% which is commonly stated. The sector that saw the highest female response rate to the survey was Academia (20%) although this was one of the smaller sector samples, while in the more populous Chemicals and Pharma/Medical sector, 16% of the responses were female. Other larger and well-represented sectors pointed to lower levels of gender diversity including Aerospace (6%) and Manufacturing (8%).
Female engineers also felt slightly more valued in their roles than their male colleagues (52% vs 48%), according to the findings, while there is little gender-based variation when it comes to overall job satisfaction (56% vs 55%).
The survey also suggested that there are more female engineers being employed at a senior level (84%) compared with last year's survey (63%).
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