Lesbians earn £6,000 more than the national average for women, take two more holidays a year and spend £400 a month on credit cards, according to the survey of 1,118 readers of Diva and Gay Times by the marketing consultancy Out Now.
Gay men in full-time jobs earn on average £34,200 a year, compared with the national average for men of £24,800. There are now an estimated £70bn pink pounds earned and spent in the UK every year. Women have officially joined the pink pound economy and some of Britain's biggest companies are ploughing money into the gay market, researchers said. The true power of the pink pound was revealed today with the publication of a survey of gay men and women's earnings suggesting they outstrip the straight salary by up to £10,000 a year.
