Reporting our April 2023 Diversity Pay Gaps

Sense have reported our Gender Pay Gaps as required by UK law since 2017. This year, we have opted to expand our diversity reporting and for the second time are reporting our ethnicity and disability pay gaps.

Our gender pay data for 2023

On the snapshot date of 5 April 2023, we calculated our gender pay gap to be:

• Median: 3.1 % (up 2.7% from 0.4%)
• Mean: 8.82% (up 1.42% from 7.4%)

Our gender split for each pay quartile was as follows, with Quartile 1 being the upper pay quartile, Quartile 4 the lower pay quartile:

Gender	Quartile 1	Quartile 2	Quartile 3	Quartile 4
Males	25%	19%	18%	17%
Female	75%	81%	82%	83%

Our overall proportion of female to male employees is 80% female and 20% male.

Our ethnicity pay data for 2023

On the snapshot date of 5 April 2023, we calculated our ethnicity pay gap to be:

• Median: 6.3% up 3.8% from 2.5%
• Mean: 7.8 % up 0.4% from 7.4%

Our ethnicity split for each pay quartile was as follows, with Quartile 1 being the upper pay quartile, Quartile 4 the lower pay quartile:

Ethnicity	Quartile 1	Quartile 2	Quartile 3	Quartile 4
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicities	12.1%	12.4%	14.8%	12.1%
White	65.8%	43.0%	35.7%	45.2%
Data not available	22.1%	44.6%	49.5%	42.7%

Our overall proportions are 12.5% Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicity employees, 45.8% White employees and data was unavailable for 41.7% of employees.

Our disability pay data for 2023.

On the snapshot date of 5 April 2023, we calculated our disability pay gap to be:

• Median: 0.0%
• Mean: -3.2 %

Our disability split for each pay quartile was as follows, with Quartile 1 being the upper pay quartile, Quartile 4 the lower pay quartile:

Disability	Quartile 1	Quartile 2	Quartile 3	Quartile 4
With Disability	6.2%	5.6%	3.5%	5.1%
Without Disability	66.7%	49.6%	49.2%	54.5%
Data not available	27.1%	44.8%	47.4%	40.4%

Our overall proportions are 5% of employees declare a disability, 52% of employees do not declare a disability and data was unavailable for 43% of employees.

Commentary

The recent implementation of new systems and processes has provided greater insight and better identification of employee protected characteristics data and any associated trends.

Although we have implemented new systems and increased our identification of staff who declare a protected characteristics there are still significant numbers of staff across all Quartiles who do not declare an Ethnicity. Increased internal communications promoting completion and updating of personal details will continue over the course of 2024.

The numbers of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic employees remain low across all Quartiles in relation to White employees. We are continuing to develop inclusive recruitment practices with the aim to increase diversity and representation across all Quartiles.

As an organisation we are proud to continue our yearly performance of reporting a 0% Disability Pay Gap.  

It’s important to us at Sense that we continue to ensure our reward and recognition strategies support us in developing a culture of inclusion and equity which is diverse in retaining, developing and all employees throughout our organisation.