What schools with 250 or more employees must publish
Schools with 250 or more employees must, in line with the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017:
- report their gender pay gap information to the government via the gender pay gap service
- publish this information in a prominent place on their website within one year of their ‘snapshot date’, which, for most public authority employers, will be 31 March
Statutory guidance on the gender pay gap information employers must report is available.
What schools with 250 or more employees may wish to publish
Most public authority employers, including schools, do not need to publish a written statement on their public-facing website.
However, schools with 250 or more employees may wish to publish:
- a supporting narrative to explain their gender pay gap
- an action plan that sets out how they plan to address it
What schools with fewer than 250 employees should publish
Schools with fewer than 250 employees:
- are not required to comply with the regulations, but
- should give serious consideration to the business benefits of doing so
Guidance on who counts as an employee is available.
For schools interested in looking at their ethnicity pay gap, guidance for employers on voluntary ethnicity pay reporting is also available.