All UK employers with more than 250 employees have been required to report their gender pay gap figures since 2017 – and we welcomed this move, because we truly believe it’s a really important step towards having a more inclusive, diverse and fair society.
The figures businesses share show the difference between the average pay of men compared to women across all levels in their organisation. What this means in practice is that if women do more of the lower-paid jobs, the gender pay gap is usually bigger.
For Karbon, our gender pay gap is 4.7%, below the national average of 7.7%.
While it’s a legal requirement to share this information, this is so much more than just data sharing for us. The report not only highlights the data but details our commitment and the meaningful steps we are taking to make a difference.
We caught up with Director of Resources, Scott Martin and our Inclusion and Belonging Lead, Di Keller to tell us more about this year’s report.
Scott said: “Ensuring organisations address the gender pay gap has been gaining more and more attention in recent years – and rightly so. Here at Karbon Homes, we think it’s crucial that we ensure equality, inclusivity and fairness in all aspects of life - including the workplace.
“Like many organisations, we’re on an ongoing journey to deliver our long-term ambitions to support gender equality, and encouragingly, I’m pleased that our focus has led to our gender pay gap remaining within 5% of parity for the sixth year running – below the national average. But we’re not stopping there. We’ll continue to take steps to close the gender pay gap and continue to show that our female colleagues’ contribution to Karbon is very much valued and recognised.
“In this year’s report, I’m proud to also share our preliminary findings from our first Ethnicity Pay Gap and Disability Pay Gap reports. Publishing these results ahead of legislative requirements has been unanimously supported by our leadership team.”
Di added: “It’s great to see that in our gender pay gap reporting our headline figures remain strong, especially in comparison to our peer organisations in the North East.
“But as Scott says, we’re not complacent. As well as our focus on the gender pay gap, we continue to focus on, and progress against, our gender quality commitments. These commitments include a focus on wellbeing, recruitment, inclusion hubs, informing our work through data, understanding our colleagues and learning and development. You can read more about them on page eight of the report.”
You can find the report here: Gender Pay Gap Report 2023.
All UK employers with more than 250 employees have been required to report their gender pay gap figures since 2017 – and we welcomed this move, because we truly believe it’s a really important step towards having a more inclusive, diverse and fair society.
The figures businesses share show the difference between the average pay of men compared to women across all levels in their organisation. What this means in practice is that if women do more of the lower-paid jobs, the gender pay gap is usually bigger.
For Karbon, our gender pay gap is 4.7%, below the national average of 7.7%.
While it’s a legal requirement to share this information, this is so much more than just data sharing for us. The report not only highlights the data but details our commitment and the meaningful steps we are taking to make a difference.
We caught up with Director of Resources, Scott Martin and our Inclusion and Belonging Lead, Di Keller to tell us more about this year’s report.
Scott said: “Ensuring organisations address the gender pay gap has been gaining more and more attention in recent years – and rightly so. Here at Karbon Homes, we think it’s crucial that we ensure equality, inclusivity and fairness in all aspects of life - including the workplace.
“Like many organisations, we’re on an ongoing journey to deliver our long-term ambitions to support gender equality, and encouragingly, I’m pleased that our focus has led to our gender pay gap remaining within 5% of parity for the sixth year running – below the national average. But we’re not stopping there. We’ll continue to take steps to close the gender pay gap and continue to show that our female colleagues’ contribution to Karbon is very much valued and recognised.
“In this year’s report, I’m proud to also share our preliminary findings from our first Ethnicity Pay Gap and Disability Pay Gap reports. Publishing these results ahead of legislative requirements has been unanimously supported by our leadership team.”
Di added: “It’s great to see that in our gender pay gap reporting our headline figures remain strong, especially in comparison to our peer organisations in the North East.
“But as Scott says, we’re not complacent. As well as our focus on the gender pay gap, we continue to focus on, and progress against, our gender quality commitments. These commitments include a focus on wellbeing, recruitment, inclusion hubs, informing our work through data, understanding our colleagues and learning and development. You can read more about them on page eight of the report.”
You can find the report here: Gender Pay Gap Report 2023.
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