# Hm Revenue & Customs

 

## Gender Pay Gap

# 2010

 
 
Reward and Policy Team The People Function Gender Pay Gap When the Equality Act 2010 came into force, it contained a voluntary requirement under Section 78, for employers to release gender pay gap information. We have calculated the gender pay gap for HMRC by expressing women's pay as a percentage of men's pay.  This shows the overall gender pay gap for HMRC is 22% in favour of men. In common with most equal pay reviews, we have adopted a practical approach to calculating pay gap by expressing gender pay as a percentage of the comparator's pay. The table below shows the median salary of women, calculated as a percentage of men's median salary. The percentage of the gender pay gap is 78%, which means women are paid 78% of the salary received by men. 

Table 1: Overall Gender Pay Gap 

| Median       | Median    |
|--------------|-----------|
| Grades       |           |
| Salary       | Salary    |
| Women        | Men       |
| (Men = 100%) |           |
| AA - G6      | 19,474    |
|              |           |
|              |           |
|              |           |
|              |           |
|              |           |
|              |           |

 This straight comparison of women's and men's pay in HMRC does not provide a meaningful comparison however, as it does not take into account the  HMRC grade structure, the different ratio of women and men within that grade structure and the different national and London pay scales for each grade. When these elements are taken into account and like for like comparisons are made, then the gender pay gap, where it exists, is considerably less than 22%. Gender pay gap by grade and pay scale area We have produced two tables to make a more meaningful gender pay comparison by comparing the median gender pay by grade and London and national pay areas. As with the overall gender pay gap, we have shown women's pay as a percentage of men's pay. Where the percentage rate for women is less than 100%, men have the lead while over 
100% means that women have the lead. To analyse the results, we have used the Equality and Human Rights Commission's definition of a significant pay gap, which is a gap of 5% 
or more, or patterns of differences of 3% to decide where further investigation and explanation is required. Table 2 compares women's and men's London median pay. It shows there are no gender pay differences from Administrative Assistant to Senior Officer grades. Only at Grade 7 and Grade 6 are there differences. In both cases length of service is probably a factor because when this is taken into account, there are no significant differences between women's and men's salaries - see table 4. 

Index 
Grade 
Women 
Men 
(Men = 
100%) 
Admin Assistant 
19,965
19,965
100%
Assistant Officer 
23,892
23,892
100%
Officer 
30,331
30,331
100%
Higher Officer 
37,105
37,105
100%
Senior Officer 
42,856
42,856
100%
Grade 7 
54,921
56,407
97%
Grade 6 
70,189
74,209
95%

 
Table 3 compares women's and men's national median pay. It shows there are small gender pay differences at Assistant Officer and Higher Officer grade. As with London there are also differences at Grade 7 and Grade 6 but once again length of service is probably a factor, because when this is taken into account there are no significant differences between women's and men's salaries - see table 4. 

 

Index 
Grade 
Women 
Men 
(Men = 
100%) 
Admin Assistant 
15,727
15,727
100%
Assistant Officer 
19,474
18,851
103%
Officer 
26,227
26,227
100%
Higher Officer 
32,303
32,622
99%
Senior Officer 
39,643
39,643
100%
Grade 7 
49,154
51,426
96%
Grade 6 
63,220
66,657
95%

## Length Of Service

|          |        |          |        |          |        |          | Median women's salary as % of men's salary    | Number of staff    |
|----------|--------|----------|--------|----------|--------|----------|-----------------------------------------------|--------------------|
| Years of | G7     | G7       | G6     | G6       | G7     | G7       | G6                                            | G6                 |
| Service  | London | National | London | National | London | National | London                                        | National           |
| 0        | 100%   | 100%     | 100%   | 96%      | 55     | 146      | 48                                            | 40                 |
| 1        | 100%   | 100%     | 99%    | 102%     | 147    | 218      | 61                                            | 89                 |
| 2        | 100%   | 100%     | 99%    | 104%     | 91     | 179      | 49                                            | 70                 |
| 3        | 101%   | 99%      | 97%    | 99%      | 63     | 138      | 30                                            | 57                 |
| 4        | 100%   | 99%      | 98%    | 99%      | 83     | 144      | 48                                            | 47                 |
| 5        | 100%   | 100%     | 101%   | 100%     | 54     | 111      | 28                                            | 37                 |
| 6        | 100%   | 100%     | 101%   | 100%     | 54     | 85       | 41                                            | 56                 |
| 7        | 100%   | 102%     | 99%    | 100%     | 62     | 96       | 37                                            | 51                 |
| 8        | 100%   | 100%     | 100%   | 100%     | 33     | 84       | 46                                            | 42                 |
| 9        | 100%   | 100%     | 100%   | 100%     | 26     | 47       | 29                                            | 30                 |
| 10       | 100%   | 100%     | 100%   | 100%     | 141    | 376      | 109                                           | 143                |