Do you have a gender pay gap?

It?s only a matter of weeks before all employers with 250 or more workers must publish their gender pay gap data. What does publication entail, and what’s the deadline?

For the private and voluntary sectors the deadline is 4 April 2018.

In the public sector it?s 30 March 2018.

That?s the day before you have to secure the data for the 2018 snapshot as you?re uploading the snapshot data from 2017. Your gender pay gap stats will build up to create a three-year display that the government hopes shows an improving picture.

What to do

  1. Register with the service.?Register at?https://gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk?. If you received a letter from the Government Equalities Office, use the reference number and security code provided. If you didn?t receive a letter, register using an e-mail address you provide. This will be used to verify your identity before a PIN is sent in the post within seven days.
  2. Get your stats ready.?There are 14 pieces of statistical information that you should compile in respect of your gender pay gap – these are listed in full below.
  3. Publish the statistics on your website.?You need a web page that must be able to be searched and therefore accessed easily by both employees and the public. You?ll need the URL of the page where the statistics are published before you upload to the government service.
  4. Upload your stats to the government service.

Here are the stats you need to prepare:

  • mean and median gender pay gap
  • bonus mean and median gender pay gap
  • bonus eligibility for both male and female
  • the split by male and female within the four quartiles of the workforce:
    • upper quartile male and female
    • upper middle quartile male and female
    • lower middle quartile male and female
    • lower quartile male and female.

What if you don?t like the stats??If you have 250 or more workers (so not just employees, it includes casual workers who you pay on invoice) based in Great Britain, i.e. not including Northern Ireland, there is an unlimited fine for failing to publish and/or for publishing inaccurate stats. So if you have fewer than 250 workers you have nothing to worry about, unlike some rather well-known businesses!

Don?t leave uploading to the last minute; there?s a registration process and you?ll need to publish internally first. In addition, failing to meet the deadline could leave you exposed to an unlimited fine.