The Vision white-collar trade union has updated figures to show the continuing large pay gaps in certain professions. For the third year running the union has compared pay rates for economists, human resources specialists and IT technicians in male-dominated and female-dominated sectors. Vision says that these pay gaps are not only large but getting larger. In one specific comparison for two identical workers both aged 41, an economist in a female-dominated sector is SEK 17080 (€1900) per month in salary, compared to civilian economist in a male-dominated sector . That's 204,950 per year. Furthermore , the difference in contract value to 39,618 per year. Added to this is the difference in pension is 9,400 dollars each month .
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