Claim: Black workers face a widening pay gap the more qualifications they earn.
Fact-check: Do black workers face a widening pay gap the more qualifications they earn? - Full Fact
Verdict: there's evidence of an overall pay gap, but the relationship between qualifications and pay is complicated. the claim is based on analysis comparing the average earnings of black and white workers over an annual period. it doesn't take account of things like the grades obtained in each qualification, where graduates have studied and what types of jobs they end up in. nor does it mean that this will be the experience that individual workers have—it tells us what the gap looks like overall.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt
Date published: 2016-02-02T00:00:00