Update to our University Pay Gap 2024

29 Jul 2025

Our updated equity pay gap reporting 2024

Dear colleagues,

We’ve now published our full and updated 2024 Pay Gaps Report, and we’d like to share the key takeaways with you. We are required by law to produce a gender pay gap report, and we also voluntarily report on ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, and religion as part of our commitment to driving progress on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.

In March 2025 we communicated, a calculation error in the methodology for casual staff pay affected the historical accuracy of our reported figures. At that time, due to this error, we were only able to share an infographic with our 2024 pay gap data.

Since then, we’ve recalculated the data for the period 2022–2024, and the corrected report is now available to access in full here. 

Our updated data has seen some shifts, and this is mainly down to the fluctuating levels of our casual colleague base, particularly in relation to our student ambassadors. This group is more diverse in terms of both gender and ethnicity than our wider workforce as you can read about in the report in section 2 of the report.

Key takeaways – 2023 v 2024 pay gaps

Gender: The average (mean) pay gap widened slightly to 15.5%, while the median stayed at 9.8%.

Ethnicity: The mean gap rose to 19.9%, but the median improved slightly to 12.2%.

Disability: Both the mean and median gaps narrowed to 11.1% and 6.0% respectively.

Sexual Orientation: The gap widened slightly - mean is now 12.3%, median 7.6%.

Religion: Still relatively small gaps here – mean at 2.0%, median at 2.9%.

These gaps aren’t about unequal pay for the same job – they reflect underrepresentation of certain groups in higher-paid roles and overrepresentation in lower-paid ones

We recognise that we still have much more to do to shift the dial on our pay gaps and the report goes into more detail on the work we are doing to make some real inroads into reducing our gaps across both Faculties and Professional Services.

We encourage you to read the full report, which also includes analysis of our bonus pay gaps.

Thank you for your continued engagement.

Sarah Fox, Executive Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion  

Ele Morrissey, Executive Director of People  

Rebecca Leigh, Director of Reward