Luxury fashion brand Burberry has reported a 6.4% mean ethnicity pay gap in favour of white employees for 2024, up from -3.6% in 2023.
Its median ethnicity pay gap for 2024 was -10.6%, compared to -17% the prior year. The organisation’s mean ethnicity bonus gap was 28.7%, up from 23.9% in 2023, and its median ethnicity bonus gap was -72% in favour of ethnically diverse employees, compared to -80.7% previously.
The employer has also reported its ethnicity pay gap by pay quartile, discovering a 19.5% mean gap and a 3.2% median gap in its upper quartile, compared to 8.4% and 1% respectively last year. At the other end of the scale, within its lower quartile the mean pay gap was -5.2% and the median pay gap was -9.6%, versus -2% and -2.5% the prior year.
Burberry’s mean gender pay gap for 2024 was 26.7%, down from 29% in 2023, and its median gender pay gap was 13.8%, down from 14.2% the prior year. Its executive committee comprises 82% men and 18% women, whereas there are 33% men and 67% women across the entire organisation.
Its mean gender bonus gap for this year was 62.8%, up from 55.8%, while its median gender bonus gap was 39.8%, a slight increase from 38.7% previously. A total of 78.5% of women and 81.4% of men received a bonus this year, compared to 81.8% and 80.5% last year.
Alexandra McCauley, chief people officer at Burberry, said: “Driven by our belief that transparency drives accountability, we have volunteered ethnicity data as part of our annual gender pay gap reporting for the past two years and we continue to do so with this report. The variety of roles and the demographic of our employee population continue to be the key drivers of our pay gaps. We know that there is much more to do, and we will use the insights from this report to direct our actions as we seek to reduce our gaps and ensure we meet our commitment to equal pay.”