Top 40 contractors fail to close gender pay gap

By Jamie Harris2019-04-05T09:07:00

Women remain worse off at top firms, considerably above UK average

Women working at the UK’s biggest contractors are paid on average 72p for every £1 that men earn, with more than half failing to close their individual pay gap.

This year’s average gender pay gap figure replicates last year’s number among the top 40 UK contractors, while just one - Taylor Wimpey - was able to report no difference at all between the average male and female hourly rate.

Skanska has seen its median gender pay gap rise by 10 percentage points since last year; its median gender pay gap is now 22.4%.

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