the difference in wages between workers with different skills in the same industry or between those with comparable skills in different industries or localities
Examples of 'wage differential' in a sentence
wage differential
Ten years after giving birth, the wage differential increases to more than 30 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Why not tax employers who let wage differentials sprawl?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Today, with higher participation and lower wage differentials, the loss is 7 per cent and it will be 4 per cent in 2050.