ONS · 2025 · Local authority
Where do women earn closest to men?
The median annual pay of women working full-time as a percentage of the median for men working full-time, for people living in each area. Both medians are published by the ONS; the division is a Civometry calculation. 100 means the two medians are equal.
Calderdale
94.6%Female median as a share of male median, per cent
women working full-time in Calderdale earn 94.6% of the male median a year (2025) — the 30th highest of 335 areas with a published figure.
- Area
- Calderdale (E08000033)
- Female median as a share of male median, per cent
- 94.6%
- Rank
- the 30th highest of 335 areas with a published figure; 13 more areas have no published figure
- Percentile
- 91% of areas with a figure are below it
- Period
- 2025
- Release
- Female full-time median annual pay: 2025 provisional; Male full-time median annual pay: 2025 provisional
- Published by
- ONS
- Status
- Civometry calculation on published figures
How this number was worked out
Female full-time median annual pay £34,721 ÷ Male full-time median annual pay £36,717 × 100 = 94.6%
female full-time median annual pay ÷ male full-time median annual pay × 100
Both figures are published for this area. Nothing is weighted, smoothed or modelled, so the sum above can be checked by hand.
women working full-time in Calderdale earn 94.6% of the male median a year (2025) — the 30th highest of 335 areas with a published figure. Civometry calculation using ONS figures. Calculation: Female full-time median annual pay £34,721 ÷ Male full-time median annual pay £36,717 × 100 = 94.6%.
Highest areas
| # | Area | % of men's |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isle of Anglesey · profile | 105.8% |
| 2 | Inverclyde · profile | 105.7% |
| 3 | Eastbourne · profile | 103.8% |
| 4 | North Ayrshire · profile | 103.5% |
| 5 | Scottish Borders · profile | 103.5% |
| 6 | Falkirk · profile | 103.3% |
| 7 | Croydon · profile | 103.1% |
| 8 | Enfield · profile | 101.7% |
| 9 | Lewisham · profile | 101.1% |
| 10 | Lincoln · profile | 100.6% |
Lowest areas
| # | Area | % of men's |
|---|---|---|
| 335 | St Albans · profile | 60.8% |
| 334 | Hart · profile | 64.7% |
| 333 | Brentwood · profile | 65.2% |
| 332 | Stratford-on-Avon · profile | 67.5% |
| 331 | North East Lincolnshire · profile | 67.8% |
| 330 | Wyre · profile | 67.9% |
| 329 | East Staffordshire · profile | 68.3% |
| 328 | West Devon · profile | 69.6% |
| 327 | Rutland · profile | 70.4% |
| 326 | Camden · profile | 70.5% |
All 335 areas, ranked
Ranked by female median as a share of male median, per cent, highest first; ties in alphabetical order. Areas without a value are not ranked.
What this map shows
335 of 348 local authority areas have a current value for women's pay as a share of men's (female median as a share of male median, per cent), 2025. Classes are quantiles of the areas with data, computed on the server, so the same link always gives the same legend.
Annual medians reflect both pay rates and hours worked, so this ratio is wider than the official gender pay gap, which the ONS measures on hourly pay. It is not that figure and is not comparable with it.
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- Data
- ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence, men and women full-time (ONS) (ONS).
- Denominator
- The male full-time median annual pay for the same area, from the same ASHE table. Both sides come from the same edition, so the periods always match. ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence, men and women full-time (ONS).
- Coverage
- Every area where the ONS publishes both medians. Small areas carry wide confidence intervals and either median can be suppressed, which shows as no data.
- Boundaries
- ONS Open Geography Portal generalised boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0 (2025-05 BGC v2 LAD_MAY_2025_UK_BGC_V2).
- Basemap
- Ordnance Survey Maps API (Light), used under the OS Data Hub terms.
- Formula
- female full-time median annual pay ÷ male full-time median annual pay × 100
- Stale areas
- Both medians use the newest edition. An area missing either median (suppressed for sample size) is no data, with the missing side named. Nothing is carried forward.
- Method
- Methodology
What this does not measure
The official gender pay gap, which the ONS measures on hourly pay to control for hours worked: annual medians reflect both pay rates and hours. It is pay for one job, before tax, excluding the self-employed and part-time employees.
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings samples 1% of employee jobs from HMRC PAYE records, with the reference period the pay week or month including a date in April. Figures are for employee jobs held by residents of the area and exclude the self-employed. ONS colour-codes each estimate's quality by its coefficient of variation; estimates for small authorities can carry a coefficient of variation above 10% and should be read as a range, and suppressed cells ("x") are omitted here rather than filled. Provisional figures are revised when the following year's survey is published.
Annual pay for full-time employee jobs by where people live. The ONS's official gender pay gap is measured on hourly earnings to control for hours worked; because men working full-time average more paid hours, this annual-pay ratio runs wider than the hourly gap and the two must not be compared. Medians for small areas carry wide confidence intervals.
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