DCMS: Gambling industry employees paid 21% lower than national average

The average hourly pay in the UK gambling industry is 21.2% lower than the national average, according to new data from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

The report found employees working in the gambling industry earned a median hourly rate of £10.64. By comparison, the average wage for those in the digital sector was £20.74.

The DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates explores the workforce of those industries that come under the government body’s remit.

Additionally, the gambling industry has failed to recover its total workforce numbers since the Covid-19 pandemic.

As of 2021, 73,000 jobs were filled in the industry, down 4% from the pre-pandemic 2019 total.

Of these 73,000 jobs, 41.7% were held by women compared to a national average of 48.1% while the industry also failed to meet the national average on ethnic minority groups at 12.3% compared to 13.2%.

However, the gambling sector did outstrip the national average when it came to the employment of people with a disability with a 20.8% share of jobs in the industry held by those defined as disabled under the Equality Act 2010.

Elsewhere, the industry outperformed the national average when it came to the gender pay gap.

According to the latest figures, the gender pay gap in the UK stood at 7.9%.

For the gambling industry in 2021, the gender pay gap came in at 6.3%.

Extrapolating this, it means for that every £1 earned by a man in the industry, a women earned £0.94.

The disability pay gap for the industry stood at just 1%, meaning that for every £1 earned by a person without a disability, a person with a disability earned £0.99.