Mean Gender Pay Gap (Hourly Pay)
About the data
This metric is based on the UK legislation requiring disclosure of gender pay gaps by companies based in the UK: The Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017.
Data for this metric only comes from the GOV.UK Gender Pay Gap Service, and as such it only concerns the performance of UK-based companies. Where this metric is applied to the performance of a multi-national company based outside the UK, the answer relates to the performance of some UK-based subsidiary (see the source for details).
A negative number means female employees earned more than male employees.
Methodology
The data for this metric is taken from the GOV.UK Gender Pay Gap Service.
From the legislation:
2.—(1) A relevant employer must publish, for 2017 and each subsequent year, the following information—
(a)the difference between the mean hourly rate of pay of male full-pay relevant employees and that of female full-pay relevant employees (see regulation 8);
(b)the difference between the median hourly rate of pay of male full-pay relevant employees and that of female full-pay relevant employees (see regulation 9);
(c)the difference between the mean bonus pay paid to male relevant employees and that paid to female relevant employees (see regulation 10);
(d)the difference between the median bonus pay paid to male relevant employees and that paid to female relevant employees (see regulation 11);
(e)the proportions of male and female relevant employees who were paid bonus pay (see regulation 12); and
(f)the proportions of male and female full-pay relevant employees in the lower, lower middle, upper middle and upper quartile pay bands (see regulation 13).