Korea’s gender pay gap widens to over 30%

Korea’s gender pay gap widens to over 30%

Korea’s gender pay gap widened last year, with the average difference between wages for men and women rising to 30.7 percent, up from 2023. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family analyzed 2,980 companies required to disclose gender wage data and found that the average annual salary for men was 97.8 million won ($70,248), compared with 67.73 million won for women. This resulted in a gender wage gap of 30.7 percent, up 4.4 percentage points fr…