August 21, 2019
Māori pay up slightly
Hourly wages and salaries for Māori and Asians increased by 4.3 percent over the year ending June 2019, compared with 3.3 percent for Pākehā, according to the latest Stats NZ figures.
Median weekly earnings from wages and salaries also increased for Māori by 4.1 percent and for Pacific workers by 5.1 percent.
The gender pay gap also narrowed and stood at 9.3 percent in the June 2019 quarter, the third-smallest gap since the series began in 1998, when it was 16.2 percent.
Labour market statistics manager Scott Usher says the gender gap was smallest among clerical and administrative workers, where 73 percent are women, and widest among technicians and trade workers, where just one in five are female.
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