Overview
- Mexico City’s labor secretariat released an Internal Equal Pay Audits guide to help employers identify and correct pay disparities in line with ILO Convention 100.
- The proposed Ley General de Igualdad Salarial, led by Morena deputy Julia Arcelia Olguín Serna, would mandate regular pay audits, salary registers, equality plans for workplaces with over 50 staff, and STPS enforcement with retroactive pay for victims.
- OCC’s Termómetro Laboral survey reports 76% of Mexican workers have experienced or witnessed unequal pay, with limited pay transparency as 37% never discuss salaries and only 13% do so openly.
- INEGI figures place Mexico’s gender pay gap near 25% as Conasami notes only modest narrowing since 2018, citing care burdens and limited job flexibility as barriers to higher-paid roles for women.
- Regional comparisons underscore the challenge: Peru’s IPE pegs the 2024 gap at 27.2% (a S/573 monthly difference), with wider gaps in rural areas and an adjusted gap of 20.5% even after controlling for worker characteristics.