Companies with more than 250 staff in the U.K. are required to report on their gender pay gap. Our figures read as follows.The mean difference for hourly fixed pay between men and women was 2.87 percent (2020) and 3 percent (2021). This year the difference has reduced to 2.65 percent, compared with a national average of 15.5 percent. This is obviously something we are proud of.
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% and closed still further to 2.6 percent in 2022.In our organization 62 percent of women occupied the highest paid jobs, This is a lower percentage than in previous years. 80 percent of women occupy the lowest paid jobs. This figure equates to the percentage of women/men we employ .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 have experienced difficulties in recruitment this year and we do not see this improving in the short term. We permanently have vacancies, the rate of pay on those vacancies varies dependent on the requirements 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.
