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Labour market

South Korea · Gender pay gap

Unadjusted gender pay gap: how much less women earn per hour vs men in NACE B-S excl. public admin.· Eurostat compares mean hourly pay of all employees; the OECD compares median earnings of full-time employees. Compare countries only within one source.
27.8%
2025
−1.2 ptsvs 2024
min 27.8 2025max 41.7 2000
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Source: OECD, OECD Earnings database· Data 2025
Gap in median full-time earnings, % of men’sY-axis truncated

2nd highest of 9 countries · 29 % · OECD 2024 — Rank on the harmonised series (OECD), the same for every country: its value may differ from the national figure shown above.

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