{"id":9242,"date":"2024-04-05T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brightmine.com\/uk\/?post_type=resources&p=9242"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:08:19","slug":"gender-pay-gap-2023","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/www.brightmine.com\/uk\/resources\/total-rewards\/pay-equity\/gender-pay-gap-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender pay gap 2023: Findings from the latest reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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by Sheila Attwood<\/strong>, Senior Content Manager, Data and HR insights at Brightmine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year marks the seventh time that organisations have had to report their gender pay and bonus gaps<\/a>. While many still leave this to the very end of the reporting year, is progress nonetheless being made on closing these gaps? We look at the latest data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Brightmine Pay Equity Analytics<\/a> (formerly Gapsquare) analysis \u2014 based on all organisations that had uploaded their data to the government portal by 9am on 5 April 2024 \u2014 finds that the median gender pay gap was 9.1% in 2023. This marks only a very small decline from the (revised) 9.2% recorded for 2022. Overall, since reporting began, the median gender pay gap has declined just 0.2 percentage points from 9.3% in 2017 (although not based on a matched sample).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greater progress has been made on the value of bonuses, where the median gap has reduced to 14.1% from 19.4% in 2017. The proportion of male and female employees receiving a bonus has almost reached parity (27.6% and 26.6% respectively).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, we look at some of the key findings from the latest reported data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just half of organisations have reduced their pay gap<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While overall the gender pay gap has reduced, not all organisations have made progress. Of the 10,410 organisations that submitted data for 2023, 9,735 also reported for 2022, allowing us to track their progress in this area. Among this matched sample, 49% have reduced their median gender pay gap. By broad sector, organisations in the public services sector are most likely to report a positive movement (53.1%). Outside of the public sector, agriculture and forestry organisations reported the most progress, with 56.4% of organisations reducing the pay gap, compared with 41.1% of facilities, security and support employers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much slower progress is evident on closing the gender bonus gap. Three in 10 (31.9%) organisations have recorded a reduction in the median bonus gap since the previous year, although progress was greatest in the finance sector, where 46.2% of organisations reported a reduction. However, as we see below, the finance sector continues to report the highest median gender bonus gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Headline gender pay gap figures<\/h3>\n\n\n\n