Gender and ethnicity pay gap reporting
Businesses with 250 or more employees must report their gender and ethnicity pay gap information.
The pay gap is a measure of the difference in the average pay between men and women, or people of different ethnicity.
By measuring and reporting this information organisations can take action to reduce any inequality.
Pay gap calculations are based on employer payroll data taken from a specific date each year. This is called the ‘snapshot date’.
Businesses with 250 or more employees on the snapshot date must report their gender and ethnicity pay gap information.
Smaller businesses can report their gender pay gap voluntarily.
Reporting
The snapshot date each year is:
- 31 March for most public authority employers
- 5 April for private, voluntary and all other public authority employers
See GOV.UK's guides on how to calculate and report:
Our pay gap data
We're committed to publishing pay gap figures for Southwark Council employees.
Gender pay gap
The main findings from a 2020/21 workforce report showed that, on average, male employees were paid lower than female employees by approximately 5.99%.
It showed:
- a mean gender pay gap of -5.99%, a slight decrease from -6.62% the previous year
- for every £10 a male employee was paid, females were paid £10.59
This is mainly due to the large numbers of male workers in lower paid roles within the waste and cleaning services.
The narrowing gap is a positive trend towards parity.
You see our gender pay gap figures in more detail on our open data page.
Ethnicity pay gap
We achieved greater representation (over 50% of employees) from black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities in the following departments:
- housing and modernisation
- childrens
- adults
There was lower representation in the chief executive’s and environment and leisure departments.
Concerns have been raised about the number of black, Asian and minority ethnic employees at grades 14 and above (£50,000+ per year).
On 31 July 2021 only 26% of colleagues from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities were on or above grade 14.
We're taking positive action to address under-representation at the senior management level.
Find out more about our commitment to tackling racism and discrimination through our Southwark Stands Together programme.