Deloitte follows EY lead, includes partners in reporting gender pay gap
London — Deloitte’s UK division said its female staff are paid 43.2% less on average than male employees — one of the wider gender gaps reported so far, but also one that included the high-earning partners that similarly structured firms have been excluding from their data. Britain is requiring companies with more than 250 employees to provide authorities with data on how they pay staff by April 4. In July, the accounting and consulting firm published a mean salary gap for its employees of just 18.2%, excluding those equity partners. Some professional-services firms had argued that as owners of the business, partners didn’t need to be included in the data. That prompted outrage from members of both main political parties, with Conservative legislator Nicky Morgan accusing law and accounting firms of exploiting a "loophole". Deloitte "listened to the calls for firms such as ours to do more in how we report gender pay data", David Sproul, the firm’s senior UK executive, said on Wednes...
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