The deadline for UK companies to publicly disclose pay gaps between male and female workers is passing today (April 4), with all organisations employing more than 250 people required by the government to publish their figures.
More than 1,200 companies have published numbers in the past 24 hours through the government’s online service (more than the combined total from the service’s previous 326 days in operation) as the midnight deadline looms.
Companies disclosing today include the UK arms of major film studios Warner Bros and Sony.
Columbia Pictures, which runs Sony’s UK film and TV operations, unveiled a gap of 23.5% in favour of male employees. Warner Bros Entertainment UK revealed that men earn 30.9% more on average.
Those figures are mean hourly rates, measuring the average difference between a woman’s hourly wage and a man’s hourly wage across the entire company.
Disney previously revealed a gender pay gap of 22% in favour of men, while Universal owner NBCUniversal disclosed a gap of 3.2%, also in favour of men.
In the exhibition field, Odeon Cinemas reported the largest pay gap with 12.5% in favour of men, while Vue Entertainment reported that women’s pay was 4% higher than men’s.
Cineworld Cinemas’ pay gap was 7.8% lower for women, Everyman Media reported a 6.3% gap lower for women, United Cinemas International (part of the Odeon group) reported a gap of 8.1% lower for women, while Picturehouse Cinemas had a 2.7% gap lower for women.
In the public sphere, The British Film Institute disclosed a gender pay gap of 0.5% in favour of men, while bonus pay was 21.4% lower for women than men.
Last week, the BBC reported a gender pay gap of 10.7% and Channel 4 reported a gap of 28.6%, both in favour of men.
The UK nationwide average gender pay gap is 18% in favour of men.
Further results from more than 9,000 companies can be found on the UK government’s service. Screen has highlighted key film industry-related companies below.
Organisations
British Film Institute
Women’s mean hourly rate is 0.5% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 21.4% lower than men’s
BBC
Women’s mean hourly rate is 10.7% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 20.3% lower than men’s
Channel 4
Women’s mean hourly rate is 28.6% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 47.6% lower than men’s
Studio facilities
Pinewood Group Ltd
Women’s mean hourly rate is 33.6% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 85.7% lower than men’s
Warner Bros Studios Leavesden Ltd
Women’s mean hourly rate is 19.8% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 54.2% lower than men’s
Exhibitors
Vue Entertainment
Women’s mean hourly rate is 4% higher than men’s
No bonuses were paid
Cineworld Cinemas
Women’s mean hourly rate is 7.8% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 15.7% lower than men’s
Picturehouse Cinemas
Women’s mean hourly rate is 2.7% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 17.1% higher than men’s
Odeon Cinemas
Women’s mean hourly rate is 12.5% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 52.3% lower than men’s
Everyman Media
Women’s mean hourly rate is 6.3% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 28.1% lower than men’s
United Cinemas International (UK)
Women’s mean hourly rate is 8.1% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 73.6% lower than men’s
Distributors
Warner Bros Entertainment UK
Women’s mean hourly rate is 30.9% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 67.3% lower than men’s
Walt Disney Company UK
Women’s mean hourly rate is 22% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 41.9% lower than men’s
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Women’s mean hourly rate is 23.5% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 45.8% lower than men’s
NBC Universal
Women’s mean hourly rate is 3.2% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 5.5% higher than men’s
Amazon Video
Women’s mean hourly rate is 40.1% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 67.4% lower than men’s
VFX and post production
Framestore
Women’s mean hourly rate is 14% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 13.5% higher than men’s
Double Negative
Women’s mean hourly rate is 19.8% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 17.5% lower than men’s
The Farm Post-production
Women’s mean hourly rate is 9.8% lower than men’s
Women’s mean bonus pay is 70.4% higher than men’s
*Figures reported above are a “mean hourly rate”, defined as “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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