It pays to be a female staffer for The Queen

The Queen emerged as a British female pay champion as figuresshowed she gives female staff in her household 8.3 percent more inhourly wages than men.

The Queen』s Household gender pay report showed women took home£1.08 ($1.52) compared to a man』s median hourly rate of £1($1.41).

As the remaining firms filed their gender pay gaps ahead of thedeadline, it also emerged that the job with the smallest gap at 0.7percent was train driving.

More than 1,200 firms have submitted the hourly rates paid tomale and female workers, the bonus gap and the make-up of theworkforce in the last day.

Overall 78 percent of firms pay men more than women, 13 percentpay women more than men and eight percent claimed there was nogap.

Out of the 9,000 firms with 250 or more employees, Ryanairemerged as having the worst gender gap in the airline industry at72 percent.

The figure is four times the country average and far worse thanEasyjet at 45 percent.

Like the rail industry, which has far fewer female drivers thanmale, Ryanair blamed the low numbers of female pilots in thesector.

Retailer Karen Millen reported paying men almost 50 percent morethan women despite them making up 84 percent of the firm』s toppositions.

And cosmetics brand Benefit also had a gap of more than 30percent – despite being a majority female workforce.

But in a sign of how misleading the figures can be, on average,women working at Buckingham Palace are paid 12 percent less thantheir male counterparts.

The report also showed the palace employs more men than women inthe highest paid roles.

Women working at Tory HQ are earning more than 12 percent morethan the men, an MP claimed.

The median gender pay gap at Conservative central office isthree times higher than at Labour HQ where women earn four percentless than men.

The Conservative Party was not required to publish the dataahead of the deadline, as it had less than 250 employees.

But speaking on BBC Radio 5 live, party vice chair RehmanChishti confirmed the median gender pay gap is 12.9% in favor ofwomen.

He said: 「Women are earning more than men, so that bucks thenational trend. I would say from a Conservative Party perspective,that is really good news to see. But we obviously have to do morenationally.」

But the party also showed a bonus gap of almost three percent infavor of men.

He said full details of the gender pay gap would be published bythe Conservative Party on Thursday.