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Gender pay gap

Gender pay reporting legislation requires employers with 250 or more employees to publish statutory calculations every year showing how large the pay gap is between their male and female employees.


Gender pay gap reporting legislation requires employers with 250 or more employees to publish statutory calculations every year showing how large the pay gap is between their male and female employees.

Summary data reports on gender pay gaps in local government 

Our reports have been compiled using data as submitted to the Government’s gender pay gap service. In the analysis, councils have not been weighted by workforce size.

The reports include comparisons between sectors and local government data including:

  • mean gender pay gap
  • median gender pay gap
  • proportion of men/women in each quartile pay band.

Summary data on gender pay gap in local government 2024

This report summarises the data submitted by English local authorities for the year 2023/2024 

A total of 293 local authority submissions were used, including eight councils with fewer than 250 employees which submitted data voluntarily.

Summary data on gender pay gap in local government 2019

This paper summarises the data submitted by English local authorities for the year 2018/2019

A total of 322 local authority submissions were identified – the remainder fall below the 250-employee threshold although 11 below the threshold submitted data voluntarily.

Gender pay gap – LG Inform – LGA research summary report

This LG Inform report - which you can modify online, changing the area and comparison group - summarises the mean and median pay gaps in local authorities, as well as the distribution of staff across pay quartiles.

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