Trade union wage premium in the UK 1995-2017

The data displays the trade union wage premium in the UK from 1995 to 2017. The data illustrates that union members, on average, earned between 12.5 and 25.9% more per hour than those who were not part of a union. Over the 22 year period, this pay gap shrank by a total of 12.2 percentage points. In the most recent surveyed time period, the difference in hourly wages amounted to 13.7 percent, and it was the same as the previous year.