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Equality, diversity and inclusionGenderGender pay gap

Equality and Human Rights Commission publishes gender pay gap

by Jo Faragher 23 Aug 2017
by Jo Faragher 23 Aug 2017

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published details of its gender pay gap, showing that on average its female employees are paid more than men.

The organisation has fewer than 250 employees, so is not required to publish the data, but said it wanted “more employers to follow suit and publish their pay gaps, using it as an opportunity to look at what is driving them”.

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The EHRC has revealed that, on its snapshot date of 31 March 2017, it had a negative mean gender pay gap of 7.5%, which means that on average, women working for the commission are paid more than men.

It attributes this to the fact that 71% of senior staff at the organisation are women, and 56% of staff with more than 10 years’ service are women, meaning they have benefited from annual pay rises.

It also reported that there are 93 women overall working for the commission, compared with 71 men.

The mean hourly rate for women is £23.14, compared with £21.53 for men. When it came to bonuses, however, there was a gender pay gap in favour of male employees.

The EHRC reported that the average bonus paid to women was 8.6% lower than that paid to men, mostly due to the fact that bonuses are pro-rated according to the number of hours worked, and 29% of women at the commission work less than a standard week.

If bonuses were calculated at the full-time equivalent, women would have been paid 0.2% more on average.

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Rebecca Hilsenrath, the EHRC chief executive, said publishing pay gaps should “guide action in organisations”.

She added: “We hope employers will use the opportunity to tell the story behind the numbers. This in turn will grow understanding across business and wider society about how to improve pay and development for women and to really drive gender equality.”

Jo Faragher

Jo Faragher has been an employment and business journalist for 20 years. She regularly contributes to Personnel Today and writes features for a number of national business and membership magazines. Jo is also the author of 'Good Work, Great Technology', published in 2022 by Clink Street Publishing, charting the relationship between effective workplace technology and productive and happy employees. She won the Willis Towers Watson HR journalist of the year award in 2015 and has been highly commended twice.

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3 comments

Phil 23 Aug 2017 - 3:47 pm

So, 71% of senior staff are female. Is there a gender glass ceiling for males at the Equality and Human Rights Commission ?
What is their strategy for tackling this problem ? – or, even worse, do they not perceive this as a problem ?

Tom 6 Sep 2017 - 9:26 pm

This is laughable.

Senior highest paying jobs given to women
Men work the longer hours for less pay.

And they insist on “telling a story behind the numbers” that makes “fair because femiwymyn stuff”

And they will whinge and whinge and whinge about the “gender pay gap” and refuse to look at the reasons.

AliRadicali 7 Sep 2017 - 12:32 pm

This is so dumb. Once again the feminists can’t help but inadvertently reveal that the “gender Wage gap” isn’t the result of sexist wage discrimination but average group differences, whereby men tend to work longer hours.

Can we stop banging on about sexism just because the results are not 100% gender parity?

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