A study shows that bisexual men earn 30% less than gay co-workers

A study by Professor Alex Bryson has found that on average bisexual men earn 30% less then gay and heterosexual workmates.

Alex Bryson, of UCL’s Institute of Education, took the historical earnings data from 20,000 employees in 2000 different work from across Britain, this showed that the gross hourly earnings of bisexual men was £9.39, heterosexual men earn £12.30 and gay men earn £13.33.

In the study Bryson also found, per hour lesbians earn £9.87, heterosexual women earn £9.97 and Bisexual females earn £9.58.

In workplaces without an equal opportunities policy gay men earned 5% less than heterosexual men, with lesbians being paid almost 30% less than heterosexual women.

Being the first study of its kind in Britain since the passing of anti-discrimination legislations in 2003 and 2010, the survey used 312 gay men and lesbian, 118 bisexual people, 18,635 heterosexual people and 986 people didn’t disclose their sexuality.

Bryan said of the findings that, “the attitudes of both employers and employees towards bisexual employees lag behind the positive developments there have been with respect to perceptions of homosexual employees”.

Bryan went on to say, “This is a call to get other people out there to do more research on this and see what they find.”

A spokesman Stonewall said that they have found evidence that bisexual people were treated differently: “We have seen in our own research that bi people experience specific discrimination that differs from other lesbian and gay people.

“Our Workplace Equality Index Staff Survey showed that just 11% of bi people see role models at work, compared with 53% of gay colleagues and 42% of lesbian colleagues.”

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