Gender pay gap analysis

22 November was Equal Pay Day in the UK for 2025¹ — the date from which women, on average, effectively start to work for free due to the gender pay gap. Coupled with the fact that as of May 2025, women make up 16.9% of all engineers in the UK² (compared to 56% in other occupations, and a 2016 figure of 16.5% for women in engineering), this is a reminder that we all still have a long way to go before achieving real equality and diversity in our workplaces.

Although Whitby Wood is still under the minimum size required for mandatory reporting in the UK, we follow the same methodology³ and look at our pay gap based on mean and median pay, and the proportion of men and women in each of our four pay quartiles. For comparison, the mean full-time pay gap in the UK for 2025 was 10.9%¹ and for 2022 was 11.3%¹ — the figure has halved in the last three decades but there has been little progress in the last few years.

We are aiming to eliminate our pay gap through progressive recruitment, development and retention policies.

All figures correct as of January 2026