Our Equity Pay Report

We believe in creating a workplace that is fair, inclusive and allows our people to reach their full potential. We understand that to do this we need metrics, and our Equity Pay Report gives us an analysis of our pay gap data.

More about our Equity Pay Report

As a purpose driven business, transparency is a fundamental part of the way we work, and our Equity Pay Report is an opportunity to openly communicate our progress and review the impact of our actions so far.

We have highlighted trends over the past five years, as we believe they provide a more meaningful perspective on our progress than year on year comparisons and they show where further efforts are needed. We have also included our latest demographic details. We have gone beyond our statutory requirements and expanded our reporting to not only include ethnicity, but disability, LGBT+, and social mobility pay gaps.

By holding ourselves accountable through this reporting, we can really focus on driving positive change. This includes how we are supporting colleagues experiencing perimenopause or menopause, through the publication of our Menopause Action Plan, included in this report.

You can read the report in full here.

As a limited liability partnership, our members (the partners) are not employees and cannot be included in our statutory gender pay gap or ethnicity statistics. However, for transparency we have detailed our partner remuneration gaps, going beyond our statutory obligations.

If you are interested in seeing our previous years’ reports, you can do so below.

Gender Pay Report 2021

Equity Pay Report 2022

Equity Pay Report 2023

Equity Pay Report 2024

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