To think the gender pay gap reporting could be more helpful??

[Ethelfleda]

My employer has released its pay gap info.
Wouldn’t the pay gap reporting be more meaningful if I knew which quartile I am in, and what the average pay gap is per quartile, rather than across the entire company?
And also, what action is actually taken against a company for having huge disparities in pay? I can’t see anything on the gov website that makes it mandatory to improve on a company’s pay gap....

No action is taken, but the information can be used by unions and/or individuals to negotiate for more equal pay or to sue for pay discrimination.

Thank you Bridget
But how can individuals use that info when it is fairly meaningless unless you know A. What quartile you’re in and B. What the gap is for your quartile?

And also - surely the type of industry makes a difference too?
So if 80% of your work force are say, warehouse operatives who all earn a flat fee per hour.. your mean and median pay gap will look really low??

You're right, it's basically meaningless.

Without knowing what the average salaries are for men and women in the same roles it's pointless.

Without knowing the distribution of men and women in different roles, it's pointless.

Without knowing what career paths tend to look like within the organisation, it's pointless.
E.g. I work for a tech company that recruit for roles in a variety of areas. The gender distribution of employees each of these areas is very different, and people don't really move between them. So our gender pay gap graphs are all over the place, because of the tendency for men and women to be in different roles. Tells me nothing about how fairly I'm paid compared to my male counterparts in the same type of role.