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Being a man is a bonus when it per cent pay gap in favour of men.
The average hourly gender pay
gap is 9.6 per cent in favour of
men, according to a BBC analysis.
comes to the ELT gender pay gap average 20 per cent more. school When a man earns a
In education, men earned on
£1 bonus a woman
In
language
the
companies, women are at a
disadvantage when it comes to earns...
UK language chains have surprisingly equitable rates of pay for men and women, bonuses. Although two thirds
but being male generally helps if you want a big bonus, Melanie Butler finds. of women at Kaplan receive a
bonus compared to just one third
of men, their bonuses were on When a man £1.33 EF
average 27 per cent lower. earns a £1 a hour £ 0.81 Instill
Six per cent of both men and
women at Instill received a bonus, a woman £ 0.50 Bellabys
but the men received 19 per cent earns...
more.
Very few staff at Oxford
International schools receive £ 1.04 EF
bonuses – just 3 per cent of £ 1.00 Instill
women and 6 per cent of men
– but on average men received £ 0.86 Oxford
49.5 per cent more. The figure international management – typically directors
at Bellerbys is 50 per cent, which of studies or student services.
means that, for every £1 men These are the schools that offer
earned in bonuses, women got the best career progression.
just fifty pence. language schools are involved in Women’s ability to progress in a As long as you choose your
Only at EF was the bonus sales. company is sharply revealed in the chain carefully, EFL generally
advantage to the women. Twice At Study Group’s central sales pay quartile statistics. This shows offers better career opportunities
as many women, 22 per cent, and marketing company, men how many women are in the top for women than the rest of British
received a bonus and, on average, earned 27 per cent more and the 25 per cent of earners, and how education, but of course the
they got 33 per cent more money. bonus gap was just under 15 per many in the bottom 25 per cent. starting pay in EFL is substantially
One reason that women at EF do cent. In EF language schools, women lower. Women who take this path,
so well is that very few staff in the In international education, make up 56 per cent of top earners however, should be prepared to
it seems, the biggest gender pay and just 48 per cent of those on take a tip from the men and argue
gap comes not in the classroom the lowest rates of pay. long and hard about their bonus.
By contrast, women make up
Of course, these statistics only
‘As an industry we or in academic management or 71 per cent of the lowest earners reveal the current position in
student support but in the sales
perceive ourselves and marketing division. in StudyGroup’s sales division and some large EFL chains.
‘As an industry we perceive
As
as progressive ourselves as progressive and equal, only 31 per cent of those at the executive Sarah of Cooper, chief
UK
English
top.
he results of the UK’s lowest, by gender. The exercise is Kaplan. Instill Education, which employ teachers, women earned and equal but but these stats show something Women looking for a career in commented, ‘This is an
gender pay gap report not designed to find if men and includes the OISE and Regent 22 per cent less than their male else,’ said Ella Tyler at Lead 5050, UK EFL should look carefully at interesting, partially reassuring,
are out. It is designed women are being paid differently brands, reported a 0 per cent colleagues. these stats show an organisation which represents the graph (opposite). Chains that snapshot of the situation. It’s great
Tto track the difference for the same job, which is illegal. difference. At language schools Study Group language school something else’ women in management. ‘We’ve do well with women tend to have to see equality of opportunity in
between pay for men and women Four language chains submitted owned by Oxford International, company, Embassy Educational already started working with some a particularly high percentage of three out of four major chains.
across different levels of seniority. their results. Two had gender however, the gap was 13.6 per Services, is not required to submit great organisations to take steps to women in the second pay quartile, I hope we would see a similar
So how did language schools do? pay gaps in favour of women: 4 cent in favour of men. At its results. However, its boarding turn that perception into reality.’ which represents upper middle picture in smaller centres.’
First, the good news. In terms per cent at EF, and 1 per cent at sister company, which does not school brand Bellerbys had a five
of hourly pay, women in UK
language schools are likely to earn
the same as – or slightly more
than – their male colleagues,
according to figures submitted to
the UK government.
Now the bad news. When it
comes to bonuses, men are likely
to earn up to twice as much as
women.
All British companies
employing more than 250 people
were required to submit details
of the median average pay of
their male and female employees
by April 4 this year. Agency staff
were excluded.
The key statistic was the
median hourly pay, the midpoint
between the highest rate and the
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