It's good news for everyone, the FMCG industry has gone some way to maintain a more equal parity of pay between the sexes than the UK industry as a whole.
With new legislation stating that Gender Pay statistics information has to be published & in the public domain by 2017, this old issue is going to continue to feature in the news.
PIE has conducted research of our candidate pools and concluded, whilst there is still a gap, the FMCG sales and Marketing industries are closer to the ideal of equal rewards between male and female employees at similar job grades and disciplines than the National statistics dictate.
Some facts and figures for you.....PIE has found that
There are still some interesting gender issues that may warrant further conversation. I'm no particular "feminist" per say, so whether these are due to natural biological, cultural, socio-economic or as some might insist "female subordination" reasons are certainly up for debate, but here's what we found.
Again, according to Office of National Statistics, female salaries peak at age 30-39, with males coming in later at 40-49.
*research performed on basic average pay information on full time employees. We did not include part time salaries, contractor or freelance billings or commission based sales bonuses for this research piece
We'd welcome any thoughts, questions or commentary you have on this issue, or any other salary and package you'd like to discuss. We'll see if we can add our two pence worth!
Watch this space for other research pieces by PIE.
The UK Government has announced league tables which will highlight companies that fail to address pay differences between men and women. Companies and voluntary organisations will be required to reveal the number of men and women in each pay range to show where pay gaps are at their widest. Average pay for men is greater than that for women. The gap narrowed to 9.4% for full-time employees in 2015 – the lowest since records began in 1997, although the gap has changed relatively little in recent years. The gap for all employees remained unchanged at 19.2%.
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