Mean gender pay gap of leading banks in the UK 2021

Published by Statista Research Department, May 24, 2022
Among the largest banks in the United Kingdom (UK), HSBC bank plc reported the largest mean pay gap between women and men both in 2020 and 2021, which was 50.4 percent. Barclays bank plc followed in the ranking in 2020, but managed to reduce their pay gap in 2021, from the second highest down to the lowest gap among the banks.

Average gender pay gap of the largest banks in the United Kingdom in 2021

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April 2022

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

April 2021

Supplementary notes

All banks included have 1,000 or more employees.

The source added the following information for methodology. "The mean hourly rate is the average hourly wage across the entire organization so the mean gender pay gap is a measure of the difference between women’s mean hourly wage and men’s mean hourly wage."

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