Men paid 18% more per hour than women at NUI Galway

From this week’s Galway City Tribune – The gender pay gap at NUI Galway is narrowing but men working in the university are, on average, still paid 18% more per hour than women, documents reveal. The difference works out at more than €6 per hour.

Professor Anne Scott, Vice-President for Equality and Diversity, has told members of the university’s Governing Body, that the pay differential of male and female staff has shown “movement in a positive direction”.

However, Professor Scott said it would “take a number of years to see if this positive trend is maintained”.

The mean gender pay gap at the university was 18% in 2019, according to a presentation given to Údarás members at a meeting last year, which was released following a protracted Freedom of Information request process.

The mean pay gap had reduced from 20% the previous year.

Nationally, the gender pay gap in Ireland was 14% in 2016, according to OECD/Eurostat figures.

The average hourly rates of pay for men and women working in the university were redacted in the minutes. NUIG said the information was commercially sensitive.

However, the Galway City Tribune has been able to independently verify that the mean hourly rate of pay for men at NUIG was €35.11 in 2019. It was €28.82 for women, a difference of €6.29.
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