Gender pay gap at Social Security Scotland: FOI release
- Published
- 16 April 2019
- Directorate
- Social Security Directorate
- Topic
- Money and tax, Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/19/00787
- Date received
- 18 March 2019
- Date responded
- 11 April 2019
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
You asked for full details in the last year of:
a) The mean gender pay gap at Social Security Scotland.
b) The median gender pay gap at Social Security Scotland.
c) A table detailing the proportion (in percentage) of males and females in each pay quartile band.
Response
The following information is based on annual salary information (as of the last day of each month) for staff in post in Social Security Scotland. The most current information held is up to 28/2/2019:
| Female | Male | Gap | |
| Mean salary | £28,660 | £28,356 | 1.07% |
| Median salary | £24,580 | £24,580 | 0% |
| Female | Male | |
| Q1 | 60.0% | 40.0% |
| Q2 | 51.5% | 48.5% |
| Q3 | 56.8% | 43.2% |
| Q4 | 62.9% | 37.1% |
| All | 57.8% | 42.2% |
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Contact
Please quote the FOI reference
Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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