Department of Health and Social Care
2021-22 Gender pay gap report

Contents


1. Main gender pay gap figures

In this organisation:

  • women earned 90p for every £1 that men earned (comparing median hourly pay)
  • 46.0% of women received bonus pay, compared with 47.2% of men
  • women’s bonus pay was 0.0% lower than men’s (comparing median bonus pay)

2. Hourly pay

In this organisation:

  • women’s median hourly pay was 10.0% lower than men’s – this means they earned 90p for every £1 that men earn when comparing median hourly pay
  • women’s mean (average) hourly pay was 11.5% lower than men’s
Read more about median and mean

The median gender pay gap figure

This is the difference between the hourly pay of the median man and the hourly pay of the median woman. The median for each is the man or woman in the middle of a list of hourly pay, ordered from highest to lowest paid.

A median involves listing all of the numbers in numerical order. If there is an odd number of results, the median is the middle number. If there is an even number of results, the median will be the mean of the 2 central numbers.

Medians are useful to indicate what the ‘typical’ situation is. They are not distorted by very high or low hourly pay, or bonuses. However, this means that not all gender pay gap issues will be picked up. They could also fail to pick up as effectively where the gender pay gap issues are most pronounced in the lowest paid or highest paid employees.

The mean (average) gender pay gap figure

The mean gender pay gap figure uses hourly pay of all employees to calculate the difference between the mean hourly pay of men, and the mean hourly pay of women.

A mean involves adding up all of the numbers and dividing the result by how many numbers were in the list.

Mean averages are useful because they place the same value on every number they use, giving a good overall indication of the gender pay gap. Very high or low hourly pay can ‘dominate’ and distort the figure.


3. Pay quarters

Due to the number of employees placed on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (furlough) this employer was not required to provide quarter data.

Read more about pay quarters

Pay quarters show the percentage of men and women employees in 4 equally-sized groups based on their hourly pay.

Pay quarters give an indication of women's representation at different levels of the organisation.


4. Bonus pay

In this organisation:

  • women’s median bonus pay was 0% lower than men’s – this means they earned £1.00 for every £1 that men earn when comparing median bonus pay
  • women’s mean (average) bonus pay was 24.6% lower than men’s
  • 46.0% of women and 47.2% of men received bonus pay

5. About Department of Health and Social Care

Registered address
Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London, London, United Kingdom, SW1A 2NS
Sector
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security, Public sector
Snapshot date
31 March 2021
Employee headcount
5000 to 19,999 employees

What this employer says about their gender pay gap (opens in a new window)