2022 – Gender Pay Gap Report

Scope of Report

  • The data for this exercise has been taken from the March 2021 payroll which includes the snapshot date of 31 March 2021;
  • The data includes all employees who are paid on a substantive or fixed term basis;
  • The data includes basic pay and relevant allowances but not overtime pay, redundancy or termination payments, or non-cash benefits such as those paid through salary sacrifice;

Education Training Collective Results

The data used for this exercise has been taken directly from the College’s HR/Payroll database and covers the snapshot period of 31 March 2021.

The mean gender pay gap

The mean hourly rate of pay for all male full-pay relevant employees is £15.41

The mean hourly rate of pay for all female full-pay relevant employees is £13.49

The mean gender pay gap therefore equates to 12.46%.

The median gender pay gap

The median hourly rate of pay for all male full-pay relevant employees is £14.48

The median hourly rate of pay for all female full-pay relevant employees is £12.27

The median gender pay gap therefore equates to 15.26%.

The mean bonus gender pay gap 

Not applicable

The median bonus gender pay gap 

Not applicable

The proportion of males and females receiving a bonus payment 

Not applicable

Pay Quartiles by Gender

BandMalesFemalesDescription
A19.7%80.3%Includes all employees whose standard hourly rate places them at or below the lower quartile
B36%64%Includes all employees whose standard hourly rate places them above the lower quartile but at / below the median
C33%67%Includes all employees whose standard hourly rate places them above the median but at / below the upper quartile
D45.3%54.7%Includes all employees whose standard hourly rate places them above the upper quartile

Conclusion

The Group’s mean gender pay gap is £1.92 per hour (12.46%) and the median gender pay gap is £2.21 per hour (15.26%)

Underlying causes of the gender pay gap 

Under the law, men and women must receive equal pay for: 

  • the same or broadly similar work; 
  • work rated as equivalent under a job evaluation scheme; or 
  • work of equal value. 

The Education Training Collective is committed to the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment for all employees, regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, age, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or disability. It has a clear policy of paying employees equally for the same or equivalent work, regardless of their sex or any other protected characteristic. 

As such: 

  • All managers receive annual training in fair external and internal recruitment practice; 
  • Workforce profile reports are provided to Governors on a regular basis; 

The Group is therefore confident that its gender pay gap does not stem from paying men and women differently for the same or equivalent work. Rather one of the drivers impacting upon the gender pay gap is the result of the roles in which men and women work within the organisation and the salaries that these roles attract. 

The College’s gender profile is consistently around 2 female employees to one male and recruitment patterns reinforce these proportions. 

However an analysis of the workforce has shown that The Group’s cleaning staff and Learning Support Assistants are largely comprised of female staff members. They all fall into the lowest salary band, which in turn impacts upon The Group’s pay averages.

The Senior Management Team is 60% male and 40% female. This also affects the College’s pay averages. 

The College will continue to take positive action to address pay imbalances between the genders in terms of its external and internal recruitment practices. In addition, we have introduced a new recruitment and selection policy and procedure which has been supported with training for all recruiting managers, alongside our mandatory equality and diversity training for all staff.