Following BBC presenter Samira Ahmed salary sex discrimination win against the Corporation over being paid less than Jeremy Vine for comparable work, new research has revealed the gender pay gap at the BBC among staff earning £150,000 or more.
The research was carried out by Zegami, the data visualisation company helping businesses unlock their data potential.
Zegami has identified that there are 181 staff at the BBC earning this amount of money. 109 are men earning on average £244,541, and the corresponding figures for women are 72 and £209,791.
For the BBC’s employees earning at least £150,000, the top quartile – those earning £245,000 or more, 62% are men, and for the second quartile the corresponding figure is 65%. Conversely for the fourth quartile, it is more evenly split with 51% men and 49% women.
Roger Noble, Founder and CTO, Zegami, said Samira Ahmed was very brave to take the BBC to tribunal over her pay and her actions will be an inspiration to women who feel they are being discriminated due to gender.
“All employers need to have a better understanding of their pay structures and how these break down by gender but also other factors such as age and ethnic background,” he added.
The Zegami platform takes complicated datasets, often only decipherable with complex models and expensive data scientists and enables a whole organisation’s workforce to be able to engage with data through visual data exploration. The platform allows users to easily filter, tag and sort data by presenting it in an intuitive, engaging way.
Spun out from Oxford University in 2016, Zegami spent its early years developing its proposition. It now has 35 clients and has developed several case studies illustrating how its proposition works across all sectors.
