What is the gender pay gap?
The gender pay gap is an equality measure that looks at differences in average earnings between women and men.
All employers with 250 or more employees must calculate and publish data on gender pay. This is done by taking payroll data for all employees from a 'snapshot day', which for this report was 5 April 2021.
Gender pay gap results for the BHF
The median pay was close to being equal for women and men. Women earn £1.01p for every £1 that males earn at the BHF.
Our mean gender pay gap for 2021 shows that women are paid 3.7 per cent less than men at the BHF. This is considerably lower than the national average, where women are paid 15.4 per cent less than men.
It is important to note that on the day of reporting, 73 per cent of our colleagues on furlough due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
What is the ethnicity pay gap?
The ethnicity pay gap measures the difference in average pay between white staff and ethnic minority staff regardless of the work they perform. We are voluntarily publishing data which highlights the pay gap with our ethnic minority colleagues as part of our diversity and inclusion planning.
What is our ethnicity pay gap?
In 2021, the median pay gap shows 9.6 per cent in favour of colleagues from ethnic minority backgrounds. However, this number is influenced by the relatively small number of BHF colleagues from ethnic minority backgrounds. Figures differ across Black, Asian and mixed-race colleagues.
In this latest data our mean ethnicity pay gap was 7.6 per cent in favour of colleagues from ethnic minority backgrounds, reduced from 14 per cent in 2020.
More to be done
This spring we will be launching our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) strategy, setting out our ambitions and commitments to hold ourselves accountable at every step of the way.
The steps we are taking, which are overseen by our Chief Executive and our EDI Steering Group, will help chart our journey to a fairer world for our colleagues, our research community, and people affected by heart and circulatory diseases.