Insights
Findings from nine years of pay gap filings
Every piece below is drawn from employers’ own statutory submissions, set against their sector. Figures are dated to when a piece was written; the live current figure for any employer or sector is always one click away.
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.
When 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.
What 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.
The 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.