HR file: How businesses can prepare for gender pay gap reporting

With gender pay gaps filling the headlines recently, including Google’s discrimination allegations and the BBC revealing huge discrepancies in male and female wages, it is not an issue that is likely to disappear easily or quietly.

Chris Evans was the highest paid star of the BBC, earning between £2.2 and £2.25 million in 2016/17. Meanwhile Claudia Winkleman was the highest paid female, earning between £450,000 and £500,000. The top seven earners in the list of the BBC’s 96 best paid stars were all male. This is something the broadcaster has pledged to make equal by 2020, but other companies now have to prepare for their reports to go public.