Gender pay gap
The difference between the average pay of men and of women, expressed as a percentage.
The gender pay gap is the difference between the pay of men and of women expressed as a percentage of men’s pay. It is reported as both a mean and a median figure, for ordinary pay and for variable components. It is a measure of distribution across a workforce, not a finding of unequal pay for the same work — which is why a raw gap on its own supports no conclusion until it has been decomposed.
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Cost to close
The annualised cost of raising pay to remove the unexplained gap for the employees affected.
Mean and median
Two required views of the same gap: the average, and the midpoint. They answer different questions.
Pay gap decomposition
Splitting a raw gap into the parts that grade, tenure and hours explain, and the part that remains.
Unexplained pay gap
The part of a gap that objective, gender-neutral factors do not account for. The part that has to be answered …
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One pay-period extract produces the seven figures, the categories that breach, and what closing them would cost.