Men were paid more on average than women at all but two of the 33 media companies that have submitted their gender pay gap figures for 2022.

The Press Association reported gender balance on both mean and median calculations for the snapshot date of 5 April 2022.

At regional publisher Newsquest, women were paid 33% more than men when the median was taken, while on the mean women were paid 9.3% more at broadcaster CNN International.

The biggest median gender pay gap favouring men was at Mirror Group Newspapers, with men on average paid 23.2% more, while the largest mean gap was at Conde Nast (30.3%). (Reach, of which MGN is a subsidiary, had a median pay gap of 8.9%.)

Having a gender pay gap does not mean men and women are not paid the same for doing the same jobs, but rather that there may be more men in higher-paid roles.

The average median gender pay gap has decreased from 15.7% in 2017 to 12.1% in 2022, while the average mean gap was down from 17.7% to 13.7%.