Gender Pay Gap Report
Hampshire County Council statement on publication of gender pay gap information
The Government requires public organisations with more than 250 employees to publish their gender pay gap figures annually.
The County Council is restricted in how it may present this information, and as such it is important to note that the gender pay gap is not the same as equal pay.
The County Council adheres to the principle of equal pay for all employees, irrespective of gender, and ensures that it meets the requirements of the Equal Pay Act 1970.
The gender pay gap is a measure of the difference between men and women’s average earnings across an organisation, or the labour market. For the year ending March 2023, on average (known as the mean figure), there is a 15.9% pay difference between men and women working at the County Council which is a slight increase from last year.
While women’s general hourly rate is 15.9% lower than men, this is not as a result of paying men more than women for the same or equivalent work. County Council staff are paid the same for the same job, but the gender pay gap exists due to our workforce profile. The majority of our workforce is female, and this is most pronounced at the lower pay grades. In particular, the County Council is quite unusual as a local authority as we have kept a number of services in our direct control, such as school meals, because we think it is important to do so. Other agencies ‘outsource’ these services, which tend to employ mostly women, and that affects the gender pay gap reports. If these services were excluded from the data, the County Council would have a gender pay gap of 11.2%.
At the same time, more women are progressing to higher grade jobs across the County Council - with women continuing to make up 57% of senior managers within the organisation.
Gender Pay Gap Reports
Gender Pay Gap Reporting 2022/2023
Gender Pay Gap Reporting 2021/2022
Gender Pay Gap Reporting 2020/2021
Gender Pay Gap Reporting 2019/2020
Gender Pay Gap Reporting 2018/2019