Achieve together Limited Gender Pay Gap Report 2024
Foreword from Lisa Cole, Chief People Officer
As part of the Health and Social Care industry in the UK, we are a little ahead of the curve in terms of workforce – the majority of Care organisations in the UK have a largely female workforce, with more women in Support Worker and Care Worker roles.
Skills for Care’s ‘The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England’ report in 2024 (skillsforcare.org.uk) confirmed that the sector gender balance is improving with 21% Men. At Achieve together we are proud to be ahead of this, with a workforce of 32% men and 68% women. There is, however, still a 7.8% gender pay gap in the health & social care sector (gov.uk). The gender pay gap in the sector is still much lower than the UK average of 13.1%.
The results of our Gender Pay Gap report for 2024, taken on the snapshot date of 5th April 2024, are an improvement on last year overall and I am delighted that our mean gender pay, whilst already low and better than sector and UK, has almost halved and is now 0.8% (reduced from 1.4% last year and 2.1% in 2022).
Our Gender Pay Gap Results
This year continues to show a small gap in mean gender pay but the gap is significantly smaller and continues to reduce at 0.8% (reduced from 1.4% last year and 2.1% in 2022).
The median gender pay gap is 3.4%, which is something we will continue to work to reduce. We are extremely proud of our female progression to management within the organisation, with 78% of our managers now women (up from 75% last year).
Proportion of males/females in each quartile pay band
Our Plans For The Future
Looking ahead, we have additional plans to:
- Continue to develop and grow our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion network and increase support and programmes for underrepresented groups across all areas
- Run new values workshops for all managers and team members, with will include a focus on diversity, equality and kindness, to continue to develop a culture of inclusion
- Enhance our Rewarding Career Adventures framework and expand it to cover managers and our Community Hub colleagues
- In 2025, we will increase our minimum rate of pay in England above the National Living Wage, for the first time.
We understand that some of the changes we are putting in place will take time to impact the Gender Pay Gap reporting, but our Board and Executive Team is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and fair pay for all our team members.
I confirm that the gender pay and bonus gap calculations and the data provided for Achieve together Limited is accurate.
Zak Houlahan
Chief Executive Officer
You can see the report in pdf or the previous Gender Pay Gap reports from the links below:
Achieve together Gender Pay Gap report 2024 in PDF file.
Achieve together Gender Pay Gap report 2023.
Achieve together Gender Pay Gap report 2022.
Achieve together Gender Pay Gap report 2021.
Achieve together Gender Pay Gap report 2020.
