A recuruitment agency has found that female interim managers earn, on average, 7% less than men - except in local government and education.
Local government and education are the two sectors that buck an overall trend tracked by specialist recruitment agency Russam GMS. In local government, women earned £540.50 a day, compared with £512.50 for men, while in education, women earned £678 and men £630.
In all other sectors, both private and public, the survey by the agency revealed that women are still lagging behind men on pay. On average, across all sectors, women interim managers are paid £553 a day, compared with an average daily rate for men of £592.
In the NHS, male interim managers earn £630 a day, on average, compared to £515 a day for women, while in charities and non-profit organisations, male interim managers earned a day rate of £537.50, compared to £466.50 for women.
The survey offers little clue as to why the rates for men and women should still differ in this way. It is not to do with unwillingness to negotiate rates. Almost the same numbers of women and men in the survey - just under half - say they "often" negotiate their rates.
Only 3% of men and 4% of women say they never negotiate rates.
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