The U.Ok. finance sector made minimal headway in closing the gender pay hole final yr, with some banks stalling — and even undoing — progress, in response to new information.
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The U.Ok. finance sector made minimal headway in closing the gender pay hole final yr, with some banks stalling — and even undoing — progress by paying ladies lower than two thirds of males’s earnings, new information exhibits.
Britain’s finance business had a mean gender pay hole of twenty-two.7% in 2022-23, solely marginally beneath the 23% reported in 2021-22, in response to filings printed on the federal government’s Gender Pay Hole Service website.
Below U.Ok. legislation, firms, charities and public sector departments with 250 staff or extra have needed to publish annual gender pay hole figures since 2017.
The finance sector reported the nation’s second-widest common gender pay hole final yr, rating simply behind the 23.2% of the schooling sector.
Banks had the best hole amongst bigger finance firms, in response to a CNBC evaluation.
How banks stack up
HSBC Financial institution PLC had the most important gender pay hole amongst reporting U.Ok. banks, with ladies’s median hourly pay coming in 51.1% decrease than that of males — in contrast with 29% in 2017-18.
Inside its ringfenced U.Ok. unit, HSBC UK Financial institution PLC — which now has a comparably bigger workforce — the hole was 20.3%.
At Barclays Financial institution PLC, ladies’s reported hourly pay got here in 35% decrease than that of males. In its ring-fenced U.Ok. unit, Barclays Financial institution UK PLC, ladies had been paid 14.8% much less.
Lloyds Banking Group’s hole got here in equally excessive final yr, at 34.8%. At NatWest, ladies earned 31.6% lower than males did, primarily based on their median hourly pay. In the meantime, at Normal Chartered Financial institution, ladies’s pay was 24.8% decrease than that of males.
At Morgan Stanley UK Restricted the hole was 18.7%, whereas at Morgan Stanley & Co. Worldwide PLC it was 36.1%. Inside JP Morgan Chase Financial institution Nationwide Affiliation, the hole was 17.1%.
A number of different banks weren’t required to report as a result of measurement of their U.Ok. operations.
In statements printed alongside their filings, the banks indicated {that a} lack of ladies in senior positions had added to the gaps.
Most industries failing to shut the hole
The U.Ok. gender pay hole stays stubbornly entrenched, regardless of ongoing calls to scale back gender inequality and quite a few research highlighting the financial advantages of doing so.
Throughout all sectors, as many as eight in 10 U.Ok. employers paid males extra on common than they did ladies, in response to BBC evaluation of the information.
In 2023-23, the median gender pay hole throughout all reporting corporations was 9.4% — the identical stage as in 2017-18, when obligatory pay hole reporting started.
The hole rose to 10.5% briefly in 2019-20, however has didn’t fall beneath present ranges.
Among the many higher performing sectors had been manufacturing, retail, well being and social care, and humanities and leisure, all of which had median gender pay gaps beneath the nationwide common.