INTRODUCTION
Polaris Children’s Service is carrying out Gender Pay Reporting, in response to the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017. This involves us analysing pay and honorarium data and then identifying any gender pay gap. In doing so however, we have not published individual employees’ confidential salary data.
This statement shows the gender pay gap as at 5 April 2020 when our workforce of full pay relevant employees consisted of only 14 men compared to 115 women.
ANALYSIS
In common with other organisations in the care sector, our company is predominantly female. The extremely high ratio of women to men has had an effect on our figures. 89.1% of our workforce is female; and women outnumber men at every level of the company.
Proportion of men and women in each pay quartile[1] (%) in April 20 (PCS)
| Hourly Rate Quartile Information | |
| Upper quartile pay gap percentage males | 7.9% |
| Upper quartile pay gap percentage females | 92.1% |
| Upper middle quartile pay gap percentage males | 15.8% |
| Upper middle quartile pay gap percentage females | 84.2% |
| Lower middle quartile pay gap percentage males | 12.8% |
| Lower middle quartile pay gap percentage females | 87.2% |
| Lower quartile pay gap percentage males | 12.8% |
| Lower quartile pay gap percentage females | 87.2% |
The gender imbalance in the workforce affected the gender pay gap statistics in our hourly rate that is summarised below. There were no honorarium payments made to male employees and this is explained in further detail below.
HOURLY PAY
The mean average hourly rate for women was lower by 11.6% compared to men’s, this is disproportionate due to the small number of men compared to women.
The median (or midpoint) hourly rate for women was lower by 0.4% compared to men’s, which is a positive change of over 25% since the last Gender Pay Report was published. This figure is meaningful and shows that men and women are paid the same overall at Polaris Children’s Services
| In April 20 women’s earnings were (PCS): | |
| Mean gender pay gap (hourly pay) | 11.6% lower than men’s |
| Median gender pay gap (hourly pay) | 0.4% lower than men’s |
HONORARIUM PAYMENTS
From April 19 to April 20, 1.17% of women received honorarium payments compared to 0.0% of men.
As no men received an honorarium payment it has not been possible to provide a bonus median, or mean, calculation.
Summary
Pay levels are determined by a number of factors, including the general economic climate, company financial performance and budgets. The overall practice of the organisation is to focus on equal hourly pay for employees and not to have a practice of discretionary honorarium payments that can be subjective in their award.
Our figures show that male and female employees are paid the same for doing the same or similar job roles and show a significant improvement on our last Gender Pay Gap report. Our figures are impacted by the relative ratio of male to female employees in all quartiles, which is common in our sector’s labour market.
We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer and always strive to ensure that our recruitment and selection process are not unconsciously biased and our focus is always in appointing the best candidate into the role, regardless of their gender or other factors.
Declaration
I confirm that our data has been calculated according to the requirements of the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017)
Name: Rob Sanders
Job Title: HR Director, Polaris Children’s Services
