26918 Blue Arrow Gender Pay Gap Report FINAL - Flipbook - Page 3
Understanding
the gender pay gap
Gender pay vs equal pay
A gender pay gap shows the difference in average pay across
all of the men and women in an organisation, industry or
country as a whole. It can be driven by the differing number
of men and women across all roles. It is not the same as an
equal pay comparison which looks at how much men and
women are paid for carrying out the same role.
Lowest paid
Median
Highest paid
How we calculated our numbers
Under the UK Government’s Gender Pay Gap regulations,
companies need to report their gender pay gap for all legal entities
in Great Britain with more than 250 employees. RSS Global has
provided reports for its legal entities in the UK that ful昀椀l this criteria.
As required, we have provided data on all of our permanent
and temporary employees. Given we are a staf昀椀ng business,
we have a very high number of temporary employees on our
payrolls at any one time working in roles for our customers.
This number 昀氀uctuates depending on requirements from our
clients, and typically the rate of pay that our temporary workers
receive is decided by our clients.
On 5th April 2023, 95.44% of the full pay relevant employees used
in these gender pay calculations were temporary.
Pay quartiles explained
A pay quartile is calculated by listing the hourly pay rates for
everyone in the business then dividing them in to four equal
sized groups. We then work out the percentage of men and
women in each group.
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Median and mean gaps explained
The 昀椀gure used most regularly is the median gender pay gap.
To help bring this to life, imagine all the women at Blue Arrow
standing in one line, from lowest paid by hour to highest, and
all of the men doing the same in another line. The median
gender pay gap is the percentage difference in hourly pay
between the women in the middle of the line and the man in
the middle of the line. Hourly pay includes leave and any shift
premiums, but not overtime.
The mean gender pay gap is the percentage difference in the
average pay of men and women. This is calculated by adding
up all of the hourly pay rates for all of the women in a business
and dividing it by the number of women, then doing the same
for the men and comparing the difference. The mean can be
affected by different numbers of men and women in different
roles.
Therefore, we also report the number of men and women
in different pay quartiles. We also report the median and mean
differences in bonus pay over a twelve-month period, and the
percentage of men and women who received a bonus. A
positive percentage shows a gap in favour of men; a negative
percentage shows a gap in favour of women.
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