Companies with more than 250 staff in the U.K. are required to report on their gender pay gap. Due to the pandemic we are reporting last years figures and this years at the same time.
The mean difference for hourly fixed pay between men and women was 2.87 percent (2020) and 3 percent (2021) compared with a national average of 15.5 percent. This is obviously something we are proud of.
On the 5th April 2019 women in our company earned 98p for every pound that men earn. In 2020 this increased to 99p for every pound men earn and in 2021 women earn £1 for every £1 that men earn.
On another positive note when comparing mean (average) hourly pay, women cleaning operatives pay was 4.1% lower in 2020 and in 2021 the gap has closed to 3%.
In our organization 69% (2020) 77% (2021) of women occupied the high paid jobs. 63% (2020) 74% (2021) of women occupy the lowest paid jobs. This figure roughly equates to the percentage of women /men we employ – 2021 75% women.
Although this is all positive and we would always support the narrowing of the gender pay gap. As an industry and a business we are extremely short staffed and new employees are taken on purely on capability. We nearly always have vacancies and the rate of pay on those vacancies varies dependent on need of the client. So the rate of pay is attached to a specific job and not to a person. Some of our employees have several rates of pay dependent on the site where they clean.
For further details please do not hesitate to contact Jane Nowosielska who endorses the publication of these figures as being correct.