The pay gap is narrowing almost everywhere. Education is the exception.
Fifteen of seventeen benchmarkable UK sectors closed their gender pay gap since 2017. Education is one of the two that didn't — and it's now within a point of the country's second-highest gap.
Read the pieceWhen a company's pay gap moves against its own industry
A single year's gap tells you little on its own. Four employers whose gap moved sharply against their sector's trend show what actually is worth a second look.
Read the pieceWhat the gender pay gap number doesn't tell you
It isn't an equal-pay measure, one year of it is mostly noise, and a shrinking gap can mean promotion or attrition. A short guide to reading the figure correctly.
Read the pieceThe bonus gap is nearly double the pay gap, and almost nobody reports it
Across every employer that files both figures, the median bonus gap runs about twice as wide as the median hourly gap — and at six in ten of them, it's the bigger of the two. Coverage almost never mentions it.
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