Telecommunications firm Vodafone has reported a 5.3% mean ethnicity hourly pay gap in its first UK ethnicity pay gap report.
The employer’s 2024 median ethnicity hourly pay gap was 0. This was based on a 64% ethnicity data disclosure rate among its UK employees. A total of 21.8% of its global senior leadership team are from ethnically diverse backgrounds, while 16.5% of its UK senior management team come from an ethnically diverse background, with 2% being Black.
Vodafone’s 2024 mean hourly gender pay gap was 9% and its median hourly gender pay gap was 11.5%. Since the employer first reported its gender pay gap, these figures have decreased by 7.9% and 12.8% respectively.
Its upper pay quartile comprises 68.1% men and 31.9% women, whereas its lower pay quartile is made up of 52.6% of men and 47.4% of women.
Meanwhile, its 2024 mean gender bonus gap was 18.9% and its median was 40.3%. A total of 92.5% of both men and women received a bonus that year.
Margherita Della Valle, group chief executive officer at Vodafone, said: “To demonstrate our commitment to an equitable workplace, this year, for the first time, we are voluntarily reporting our ethnicity pay gap alongside our gender pay gap. We published our first gender pay gap report in 2017, and since then we have increased the representation of women in senior management roles to over 35%.
“In the UK, 16.5% of staff are from an ethnically diverse background, with Black leaders making up 2% of senior management roles. Improving disclosure rate is key to better understanding our ethnicity pay gap and we continue to encourage our people to share their diversity data. While we are making progress, there is more to do and we remain committed to addressing diverse representation at all levels of our business, and through our actions to reducing the gaps.”
