HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) has reported a 5% mean gender hourly pay gap for 2025.
This figure has decreased slightly by 0.7 percentage points from 5.7% in 2024.
Meanwhile, its median gender pay gap has decreased by eight percentage points from 5.5% in 2024 to 4.7% in 2025. The organisation has a higher proportion of men in senior grades, so men continue to have higher average earnings as a group.
Within its upper pay quartile, 56.7% of employees are female and 43.3% are male. Its lower pay quartile comprises 46.4% women and 53.6% men.
HMRC and VOA’s mean gender bonus gap for 2025 was 17.2%, down by 2.8% from 2024. This stood at £104.17 for male staff and £86.22 for female employees. Its median gender bonus gap for 2025 was zero, standing at £25 for both male and female employees. The figures are based on Simply Thanks vouchers and senior civil service performance award data.
A HMRC and VOA spokesperson said: “We are committed to closing the pay gap and our approach goes beyond focusing solely on pay. Our actions form part of the work we do to achieve our public sector equality duty objectives. Closing the gender pay gap is a long-term goal that we have been working towards and we have carried out deep dive analyses to understand the causes.
“There are more women than men in lower-paid roles and more men than women in higher-paid roles, as 66% of staff working in an administrative assistant role were women, compared to 44% women in senior civil servant roles. If the number of men and women at each grade, work pattern and location were equal, our mean gender pay gap would shrink to 0.1% and our median gap would close altogether. We know there is more to do to close the gender pay gap. We continue to make progress by increasing the representation of women in senior roles.”
