Report reveals the gender pay gap

For the fourth year running women who work for Scarborough Council have been found to earn a higher average wage than their male counterparts.

The council says this is due to the number of men who work in typically lower paid areas of the local government, including refuse collectors and parks staff.

Gender pay gap legislation requires all organisations with a workforce of 250 or more employees to publish an annual gender pay gap report.

The council says it will continue to work with lower paid employees to help them climb their way up the ladder.

For the year until March 31 2020, Scarborough Council has a mean gender pay gap of -2%.

This shows that women earned slightly more hourly compared to men.

The national average is 6.5% in favour of male workers.

Despite the figures, the council found that men still made up the majority of its top earners.

A report on the pay gap stated: “As at March 2020, only five of the 18 Service Unit Managers were female and of the top 149 earners in the authority only 40.9% are women.”

The reporting of the 2020 data was delayed by the pandemic.