Gender Pay Statement 2018 - Together Housing Group
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Gender Pay
Statement
2018
Gender Pay Statement
Mean Figure Median Figure
Men are paid 6.4% more than Women Men are paid 10.52% more than Women
Lower Quartile All employees
Pay up to £19,243
Male 688
Male 111 Female 580
Female 206
Lower Middle Quartile 54% 46%
£19,234 - £25,494
Male 169
Female 149
53%
47%
Leadership Team and
Upper Middle Quartile Senior Management
£25,495 - £29,743
Team
Male 204 Male 17
Female 112 Female 12
65%
35%
Upper Quartile 58% 42%
Pay above £29,744
Male 204
Female 113
64%
36%Introduction Gender pay
Together Housing Group is committed to Together Housing Association is committed to
promoting equality of opportunity with fair pay for all employees regardless of their
our residents, staff and stakeholders. By gender. We ensure that all our policies and
valuing and respecting the contributions procedures are fair and recognise the equality
of all our staff, we aim to foster a culture and diversity of not only our workforce but also
of mutual respect that enables people to the communities we serve.
thrive and to realise their full potential. We
recognise that as a major employer we need To ensure fair and equal pay, we provide an
to use the talents of everyone in our existing equality assessed job evaluation scheme in
or prospective workforce. This will enable collaboration with our recognised Trade Union
us to achieve our vision of being a great colleagues. This ensures jobs are assessed to
place to work. ensure that all employees are paid equitably.
Trade Unions play an active role in the
process when new roles are graded by the Job
Evaluation Panel.
Our commitment
We aim provide a culture that allows all
employees to meet their career aspirations. Results of Gender Pay audit
We want everyone, regardless of their
gender, to join our team and develop The mean difference between the pay of Male
with us in all roles and at all levels of the and Female employees in our business is 6.4%
business. We are working hard to break and the median is 10.52%.
down any workplace barriers or stereotypes
that exist towards gender pay equality. While we are not justifying the existence of the
gender pay gap, however, a large contributing
factor that due to the fact we employ a large
trade section in our business. We employ
Together Housing around 1 in 3 of our workforce in trades such as
Association joinery, plumbing or gas engineering. This is one
of the reasons for the difference as these skilled
The largest component of Together Housing roles have been seen as traditional roles for
Group is Together Housing Association. men, and Together Housing Association has very
Together Housing Association’s purpose is few women employed in trade roles. Almost all
to manage and develop social housing and of these trade roles are paid in the Upper Middle
it employs our staff. Quartile (£25,495 to £29,743) or the Upper
Quartile (above £29,744).
As of the 31 March 2017, Together Housing
Association: Another reason for the gender pay gap is that
• owned or managed 38,026 homes; we also have more women in our lower quartile
• covered a huge geographical area across where there are proportionally more part time
over 30 Local Authorities; and roles. This reflects the societal traditional norms
of women being the main carer for children and
• achieved a turnover of £173.8 million. the elderly.
This gender pay audit covers employees of
Together Housing Association only. It does
not include employees of any other group
companies such as Newground CIC.Proposed actions
To tackle the gender pay differential, • Ensuring every current and future
Together Housing Association is undertaking employee has a chance to get on in the
the following: business and move through the ranks
regardless of their gender. We recruit
• Encourage applications from female
and promote based on a mixture of
students into our trade apprentices
skills and behaviours using assessment
with roadshows in our communities.
centres and competency based
These will showcase trade apprentice
interviews to pick the best candidates.
opportunities and will be hosted by
At the most senior levels within the
female members of our trade teams.
organisation – Leadership Team and
• Using our policies and procedures to Senior Management Team - we have a
encourage cultural change. We encourage 58:42 male/female split.
employees at all levels to adopt a healthy
• We have an internal development
work life balance and gear our culture to
programme that uses senior role
allow managers to consider a wide range
models as career coaches, along with
of options to allow this to continue.
a comprehensive training programme
• Promoting flexible working in our that embeds our culture of fairness and
organisation through our agile working equality in the workplace for all.
strategy that allows for working from
home where possible; working across
a variety of locations; compressed and
variable hours; flexible working hours
through our flexitime policy; and part
time and job share options where we can
make this work.
Together Housing Group
Bull Green House
Bull Green
Halifax
HX1 2EB
@TogetherHG
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