Gender pay gap reporting explained

Recently introduced legislation requires employers with 250 or more employees to publish their calculations annually, showing how large the pay gap is between male and female employees.

The first is for large private and voluntary organisations and the deadline to report is 4 April 2018. The second is mainly for the public sector and this has a deadline of 30 March 2018.

There are six calculations to be reported and published:

• the mean and median gender pay gap in hourly pay
• the mean and median bonus gender pay gap
• the proportion of males and females receiving a bonus payment
• and the proportion of males and females in each pay quartile.

If your organisation has less than 250 employees, you can voluntarily publish a gender pay gap report, but you are not obliged to do so.Harrison Drury has a team of employment experts on hand to advise you through the gender pay gap reporting process.