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Pay Gaps #17 – How to Spot an Incorrect Median Gender Pay Gap

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I have a spotted an incorrect median gender pay gap published by a well known name in a certain industry.  They shall remain nameless for now since I am trying to get them to accept their error and publish a new gender pay gap report on their website.  I know they have made an error because their published data violates the laws of mathematics as I will explain in this blog.  All it takes to spot such an error is a simple calculation you can do in your head and an understanding what the median measures.

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Pay Gaps #2 – 1 in 10 organisations have published incorrect gender pay gap data. Are you one of them?

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The first round of gender pay gap data is now available for all organisations employing more than 250 employees.  The UK now faces the challenge of interpreting this data and using it properly which will not be easy given “the 7 ways to misuse gender pay gap data” I recently wrote about.  In the short term, there is an immediate need to resolve errors in the data published and I will demonstrate that potentially 10-15% of organisations have entered incorrect data into the government’s database. [Read more…] about Pay Gaps #2 – 1 in 10 organisations have published incorrect gender pay gap data. Are you one of them?