Confused.com Gender Pay Gap 2022

Gender Pay Gap is a government reporting requirement. The UK Government explains Gender Pay Gap as the difference in the average hourly wage of all men and all women across a workforce. This means that we take all salaries together, by gender, and create metrics based on these results. The two key metrics we report on are ‘mean’ and ‘median’ (see below for more detail on these metrics).

We look at the pay of all men and women in our organisation on 5 April each year - (this is the annual date we are required to report on under the government legislation).

Mean pay gap: The mean gender pay gap figure is assessed by including the hourly pay of all full-pay relevant employees to calculate the difference between the mean (average) hourly pay of men, and the mean (average) hourly pay of women.

Median pay gap: The median pay gap is the difference between the hourly pay of the median full-pay relevant men and the hourly pay of the median full-pay relevant woman. The median is the number that falls in the middle of a range when employees' salaries are grouped from smallest to largest.

Hourly pay gap: As of 5 April 2022, Confused.com had 285 relevant employees in which 106  were women and 179 were male employees. Within the 285 employees, 276 employees were included in the full pay relevant calculations i.e. 97 female and 179 male employees (9 employees were on reduced pay due to long term leave, i.e. maternity, sickness, sabbatical leave, etc). The data from this group of people provides our mean and median Gender Pay Gap results, as below:

Bonus pay gap

For the period of 6 April 2021 to 5 April 2022, we paid 260 employees bonuses relating to i.e. performance, commission, sign-on bonuses, long service awards, referral bonuses and group referrals. Bonuses were awarded to 94 women and 166 men who received a payment relating to bonus within the 12 month pay period.

The percentage of employees receiving a bonus: 93% Male, 89% Female. The data from this group of people provides our mean and median Bonus Pay Gap results, as below:

Other GPG requirements The government also requires us to publish the proportion of employees in each pay quarter according to gender. For the quartiles calculations Confused.com had 276 employees as of 5 April 2022, divided by four equal quartiles - 276 divided by 4 is 69, as shown below: