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Income disparity or wage gap is a term used to discribe inequities in average pay or salary between socio-economic groups within society, or the inequities in pay between individuals who produce the same work. Income disparity generally occurs when certain groups within society suffer from social inequality within a society.

Common examples include:

• lower average income for females than males
• Income discrepancy between minority ethnic groups and the majority.
• The income gap between the wealthy and the poor.

See also

• economic inequality
• Income inequality metrics
• Gender gap
• International inequality

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