Data on gender pay gap


The Department for Education (DfE) has become the first government department to publish its gender pay gap figures. 


Its mean pay gap — the difference in average salaries for men and women — is 5.3%, and its median (midpoint) pay gap is 5.9%. The figure was calculated by how much an individual is paid per hour, so all workers including part-timers are included. This compares favourably to the UK’s national average gender pay gap, which is 18.1%, according to the Office for National Statistics.


The department, which employs 5,430 civil servants, said that more than half of its employees were female and a higher proportion of women than men were in its top pay quartile. However, there were also more women than men in the lowest pay quartile, which contributed to the gap.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632277/Gender_Pay_Gap.pdf