In line with the UK government’s gender pay gap regulations, fashion brand Burberry reported a 33.1 per cent mean gender pay gap for fixed hourly pay as on April 05, 2019. The organization currently has 9,862 employees. The UK government’s reporting regulations require organizations with 250 or more employees to publish the differences in mean and median hourly rates of pay for male and female full-time employees, the gap in men and women’s mean and median bonus pay, the proportions of male and female employees awarded bonus pay and the proportions of male and female full-time employees in the lower, lower middle, upper middle and upper quartile pay bands.

Due to the pandemic, gender pay gap reporting regulations have been suspended for the 2019/2020 reporting period, however, some organizations have chosen to do so voluntarily. Burberry’s median gender pay gap for fixed hourly pay is 10.3 per cent as in April 2019. On average women, earn 90p compared to every £1 their male counterparts earn. The brand’s mean gender pay gap for bonuses paid during the reporting period is 40 per cent while its median gender pay gap for bonus payments is 23.2 per cent.

Over the reporting period, 78.7 per cent of the brand’s female employees and 76.3 per cent of its male employees received bonus payments. Around 56.4 per cent of employees in the highest pay quartile at Burberry are female, compared to 67.6 per cent in the second quartile, 59.7 per cent in the third quartile and 78 per cent in the lowest pay quartile.