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Pay Gap Trends #2 – My analysis of 7 sectors for Practical Law magazine

June 3, 2020 By Nigel

In April, I was asked to analyse the trends in UK gender pay gaps over the 3 years of mandatory reporting from 2017 to 2019 for Practical Law.  They were interested in 7 customised sectors and the links to these can be found in this post.

Due to the suspension of enforcement of the gender pay gap reporting deadline, at the time I wrote these articles, only half of employers had submitted data for 2019. This meant I had to use some statistical methods of imputation to fill in the gaps and my articles explain how I did this.

The 7 sectors are specific to Practical Law.  The links take you to the articles but you do need to be a subscriber to the magazine to read them.  There is an option to have a free trial though.

  1. Banking
  2. Insurance & Reinsurance
  3. Power & Renewables
  4. Oil & Gas
  5. Life Sciences
  6. TMT (Technology, Media & Telecoms)
  7. Heavy Industry – to be published at a later date

 

– Need help with interpreting your pay gaps? –

I offer the following services.

  1. Analytics – I can dig deep into your data to identify the key drivers of your pay gaps.  I can build a model using a large number of variables such as pay band, seniority, job function, location, etc and use this to identify the priority areas for closing your gaps.
  2. Training – I run training courses in basic statistics which are designed for non-statisticians such as people working in HR.  The courses will show you how to perform the relevant calculations in Microsoft Excel, how to interpret what they mean for you and how to incorporate these in an action plan to close your gaps.
  3. Expert Witness – Has your gender pay gap data uncovered an issue resulting in legal action?  Need an expert independent statistician who can testify whether the data supports or contradicts a claim of discrimination?  I have experience of acting as an expert witness for either plaintiff or defendant and I know how to testify and explain complex data in simple language that can be easily understood by non-statisticians as can be seen from my testimony to the Treasury Select Committee.

If you would like to have a no-obligation discussion about how I can help you, please do contact me.

– Want to know more about pay gaps?  –

I have written a number of articles about pay gaps covering these topics:-

  1. What gender pay gap data tells us, what it doesn’t tell us and how it can be misused
  2. Why the gender pay gap is not the same as unequal pay
  3. Three distinct errors that have been made by at least 10% of all organisations when submitting their gender pay gap data
  4. How to distinguish between a true pay gap and a pay gap that arises naturally due to the laws of chance
  5. Why Gender Pay Fingerprints are superior to Gender Pay Gaps
  6. Why winning an equal pay tribunal can widen a gender pay gap
  7. My 12 steps to improve public confidence in gender pay gap data
  8. My evidence to the Treasury Select Committee on how gender pay gap reporting could be improved
  9. Calculate your gender pay gap by downloading my free spreadsheet calculator!
  10. Did the gender pay gap narrow in 2018?
  11. How to identify unusual year on year changes in gender pay gaps
  12. How to close your pay gap with DMAIC
  13. Should the UK introduce Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting?
  14. What is best way to do Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting?
  15. Frequently Asked Questions about gender pay gaps.

Finally visit my Twitter thread to see my comments on gender pay gaps in the media.  Some notable ones are here.

  1. My complaint about comments made by the head of the TUC on the 2018 pay gap.
  2. Some observations on the government’s guidance to producing gender pay gap statistics and the numerous deficiencies in these.
  3. My comments on why incorrect gender pay gap data is being submitted.
  4. At last, the BBC publishes a good article on gender pay gaps!

Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: 2019, Gender Pay Gap, imputation, pay gap trends, Practical Law, Presenting data, Sector analysis, trend analysis

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