The Gender Pay Gap at British Newspapers
Inspired by Twitter's Gender Pay Gap Bot, we take a look at pay gap at British newspapers
Every International Women’s Day Twitter comes alive with the chaos caused by @PayGapApp. This bot retweets any company that tweets about International Women’s Day and adds their gender pay gap. The data is publicly available on the government website. We’ve taken inspiration and created our own ranking of major British newspapers based on their most recent gender pay gap report.
First a quick note of mean versus median. Mean gives a good overall understanding by valuing every employee’s pay equally. It adds all the numbers up and divides by how many there are, giving an average. Median can give a better impression of what’s ‘typical’ as it won’t be distorted by very high or low paid employees. This lists all the numbers in order and takes the middle value. You can learn more here.
7 – The Telegraph
Mean pay gap: Women are paid 26.1% lower than men
Median pay gap: Women are paid 21.1% lower than men
Mean bonus pay: Women are paid 54% lower than men
Median bonus pay: There is 0% difference between men and women
6 – The Times
Mean pay gap: Women are paid 14.5% lower than men
Median pay gap: Women are paid 13.4% lower than men
Mean bonus pay: Women are paid 40.3% lower than men
Median bonus pay: Women are paid 57.6% lower than men
5 – The Economist
Mean pay gap: Women are paid 18.7% lower than men
Median pay gap: Women are paid 22.4% lower than men
Mean bonus pay: Women are paid 8.9% higher than men
Median bonus pay: Women are paid 26.9% lower than men
4 – The Financial Times
Mean pay gap: Women are paid 15.1% lower than men
Median pay gap: Women are paid 13.4% lower than men
Mean bonus pay: Women are paid 17.8% lower than men
Median bonus pay: Women are paid 6.2% lower than men
3 – The Guardian
Mean pay gap: Women are paid 7.8% lower than men
Median pay gap: Women are paid 8.7% higher than men
Mean bonus pay: Women are paid 5.8% lower than men
Median bonus pay: There is 0% difference between men and women
2 – The Independent
Mean pay gap: Women are paid 13.7% lower than men
Median pay gap: Women are paid 5.4% higher than men
Mean bonus pay: Women are paid 50% lower than men
Median bonus pay: Women are paid 44% lower than men
1 – The Evening Standard
Mean pay gap: Women are paid 3.8% higher than men
Median pay gap: Women are paid 9.8% lower than men
Mean bonus pay: Women are paid 29.3% lower than men
Median bonus pay: Women are paid 20.1% higher than men
