Equality, Diversity & Human Rights
Gender Pay Gap Reporting
Gender Pay Gap Reporting
What is gender pay gap reporting?
From 2017 onwards, any UK organisation employing 250 or more employees has to publicly report on its gender pay gap in six different ways: the mean and median gender pay gaps: the mean and median gender bonus gaps: the proportion of men and women who received bonuses, and the women who received bonuses, and the number of men and women according to quartile pay bands.
Gender pay gap reporting is not about equal pay. Equal pay is about the differences in the actual earnings of men and women doing equal work. It is unlawful to pay people unequally because they are a man or a woman. The RUH Bath NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer.
The gender pay gap shows the difference in the average earnings between all men and women in an organisation.
What is the 'Mean'?
The mean is the average hourly wage. It is calculated by adding up all the pay of all male employees and dividing it by the number of male employees. The same is then done for all the female employees.
The mean gender gap therefore is the difference between the mean hourly rate of pay of male full-pay relevant employees and that of female full-pay relevant employees.
What is the 'Median'?
It's the mid-point between the highest and lowest earners. The median gender gap therefore is the difference between the median hourly rate of pay of male full-pay relevant employees and that of female full-pay relevant employees.
Our gender pay gap data
We collected our data on the 31st March 2022. Our report sets out the 2022 gender pay gap in comparison to 2021 data, the results from the NHS staff survey data around pay, alongside acknowledgements and actions for the Trust to address its gender pay gap.
Mirroring the NHS as a whole, 76.49% of our workforce is female. Female employees outnumber male employees at most levels of the organisation, except for within our medical and dental workforce where the split is approximately 50/50. There has been a decrease of the median pay gap for the Trust overall, favouring women with female employees paid 1.31% more on average than male. Last year's gap was 2.49% favouring women.
Our complete gender pay gap report can be read here and includes a narrative and explanation of the figures and what they mean.
Gender Pay Gap Report - 2021 / 2022