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Pay Gap Trends #3 – Did the UK gender pay gap narrow in 2019?

June 14, 2020 By Nigel

On 24th March 2020, the UK government suspended enforcement of the gender pay gap reporting deadline of 5th April.  As of today, just over 50% of employers have reported their 2019 gender pay gap figures.  Despite this shortfall, I have used statistical imputation methods to calculate that the median gender pay gap narrowed in 2019 from 9.6 pence in the pound to 9.0-9.2 pence in the pound.

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: data quality, Gender Pay Gap, imputation, missing data, trend analysis, year on year

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.

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

Pay Gap Data #3 – Where can I find gender pay gap data for 2019?

June 2, 2020 By Nigel

This post was updated on 3rd June 2020 with the latest data

Update 5/4/20 –  On 24th March, the government suspended enforcement of the deadline for reporting 2019 gender pay gaps due to the coronavirus outbreak.  As of now, Only 40% of employers have reported their 2019 data.  Employers are still required to report 2019 data but will not be punished for being late in doing so.

The government requires all organisations employing 250 or more employees to submit gender pay gap data.  All data is available to the public and can be found on the government’s gender pay gap website.  I have downloaded this data and created a spreadsheet tool to present the data in a more user-friendly and visual format.

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: 2019, data quality, Gender Pay Gap, Presenting data

Pay Gap Tools #1 – Where can I find a gender pay gap calculator?

June 1, 2020 By Nigel

** Update 22nd August 2020 ***

I am no longer offering a free spreadsheet tool. 

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: Calculator, Gender Pay Gap

Pay Gaps #14 – Gender Pay Fingerprints are better than Gender Pay Gaps

February 19, 2020 By Nigel

Recently, a lot of people have been making incorrect claims about what a gender pay gap tells you.  I have been pointing out these errors but in doing so, I am conscious I come across as a pedant or a negative voice.  The problem is that the official gender pay gap measure (the difference between the median man and the median woman) is just a single number and that single number does not capture the full nuance of what is going on.  I have decided it is time to introduce the Gender Pay Fingerprint to the world as an alternative and going forward, I will be encouraging people to use this instead.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: Box Plot, Gender Parity, Gender Pay Fingerprint, Gender Pay Gap, Income Quarters, Income Quartiles, industry sector, Pay Gap Analysis

Pay Gap Case Study #3- Will the BBC’s gender pay gap narrow after losing to Samira Ahmed?

February 13, 2020 By Nigel

The BBC presenter Samira Ahmed has won her claim for equal pay at the employment tribunal.  She successfully claimed that Jeremy Vine was an appropriate comparator for her pay.  She is not the only female presenter to make a claim with over 50 more claims under consideration at present.  Assuming that these are all successful, will these have any effect on the BBC’s gender pay gap for 2019 of 7p in the pound?

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: Audit, BBC, Equal Pay, Gender Pay Gap, Median, Unequal Pay

Pay Gaps #13 – How could Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting be introduced in the UK?

February 11, 2020 By Nigel

On 5th February 2020, Baroness Prosser laid a bill in the House of Lords which calls for the introduction of ethnicity pay gap reporting in addition to a number of other initiatives.  Last year I explained why ethnicity pay gap reporting cannot follow the same process as gender pay gap reporting so now is the time to explore how ethnicity pay gap reporting could be carried out.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: classification, Closing Gaps, Data journalism, data quality, Ethnicity Pay Gap, Gender Pay Gap, SIC, Statistician

Pay Gaps #12 – Unequal Pay & Gender Pay Gaps are not the same thing!

November 8, 2019 By Nigel

The 14th November 2019 is being incorrectly marked as Equal Pay Day in the UK by the Fawcett Society.  By having a campaign name that conflates equal pay issues with the gender pay gap, the Fawcett Society runs the risk of misleading men and women in the UK in their understanding of what these two concepts mean.

If you care about statistics being used correctly then please lobby the Fawcett Society to rename this as Gender Pay Gap day instead.

If you care about issues to do with Equal Pay, then please support the #MeTooPay campaign instead.  This is a new campaign, led by Dame Moya Greene, who are explicit about the distinction and are saying, quite rightly, that with the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act taking place next year, cases of unequal pay should not be happening in this day and age.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: Equal Pay, Equal Pay Day, Fawcett Society, Gender Pay Gap, Median, Unequal Pay

Pay Gaps #11 – A median sized problem with 10 solutions from the RSS

August 7, 2019 By Nigel

The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and I have published two articles to help employers better calculate and interpret their gender pay gaps.  The first article lists 10 recommendations to improve the quality of gender pay gap reporting, the second is an article in Significance magazine which explores in more detail, two of the recommendations concerning medians and quartiles.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: data quality, Gender Pay Gap, Median, Quartiles, Royal Statistical Society, Significance

Pay Gaps #10 – Should the UK introduce Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting?

July 18, 2019 By Nigel

After two years of mandatory gender pay gap reporting, there is increasing pressure to bring in pay gap reporting for other protected characteristics.  At the moment, ethnicity is receiving the greatest attention and a number of politicians are calling for the introduction of mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting.

In this post, I will explain why I am opposed to an ethnicity pay gap reporting process which simply replicates the gender pay gap reporting process.  In a future post, I will explore what an ethnicity pay gap reporting process should look like if parliament decides it wants to make this law.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: data quality, Ethnicity Pay Gap, Gender Pay Gap, Statistician

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