Pay equality between the sexes, even for young professionals, is still some way off, according to CIMA’s 2010 salary survey. In the UK men earn 8% more in their basic salary than their female colleagues. In the UK that means the average male accountant is paid over £2,500 more each year than a woman doing the same job! Still you could be working in Sri Lanka where the pay differential is a whopping 42%.
The average CIMA student’s annual salary in the UK is now £30,817. This is in fact a drop of 2.5% year-on-year. Read more in the next issue of PQ magazine.
PQ Magazine 2nd June 2010