So what’s the gender pay gap where you work, and what is being done?

[Cwenthryth]

So the company I work for has published.... mean 47%, median 51% . 12% of men received bonuses, 2.5% of women. Then women’s bonuses were more than the men’s though. We’re about 80/20 female/male which reflects the industry as a whole, and typically lower paid jobs are almost all women, senior management are all men, middle management a mix of both.

Other companies in our industry are publishing consistently around the 30% mark.

I had a meeting with our HR manager on Tuesday about unrelated matters, but at the end raised this and asked what was happening. He accepted that the numbers were ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘a concern’, and said a fuller report will be published and they will be looking into the issue. He was pretty shocked at how much worse our numbers are than our competitors.

How are other employees finding things in their workplaces?

Mine is 30% in my bit.

Mine are explaining it away with the Easyjet explanation, which quite literally could not apply any less to my company - it is a very corporate, and a 50/50 split at entry level of professionals (accountants, lawyers, etc).

They have also got rid of the job bandings, which TBH just makes me think they'd have a massive equal pay gap too if they hadn't.

They are, of course, making the usual mutterings of trying to promote more women into senior positions too.

We don’t really have one in the MOD. And due to a quirk of specialist pay, I get paid more than the biggest boss... (the boss of my bosses boss).

You know what, the men hate that and I’m very close to making a complaint about the way they’ve accessed my records to find that out... for now (outnumbered by 9:1) I’ll just smile into my coffee.

Mine is 27% although, of 4, I’m the only woman on the leadership team. I have suggested that if they all decided to self id, then that would help next years report.