Town have published details of their gender pay gap, as all companies with more than 250 employees are required to do before midnight tonight.

In a statement on the club site MD Ian Milne said: “We are required to publish details annually of our gender pay gap which includes all staff and players.

“For the purposes of this report the results are based on the snapshot date of 5th April 2017 for hourly rates of pay and the bonuses paid to staff in the 12 months to that date.

“There are six metrics that we are required to report on: difference in the mean pay of men and women stated as a percentage, difference in the median pay of men and women stated as a percentage, difference in mean bonus pay of men and women stated as a percentage, difference in median bonus pay of men and women stated as a percentage, proportion of men and women who received a bonus, proportion of men and women in each of the four quartile bands.

“Football is a sport in which the highest earning player and management roles are almost exclusively held by men and this has a significant impact on our results.

“All other roles we ensure that staff carrying out equal work are paid equal salaries - dependent on experience and qualifications.

Gender Pay and Bonus Gap

*Town have a mainly female corporate hospitality team who earn commission, therefore mid-range bonuses paid in the year to 5th April 2017 were higher for female employees than male.

Proportion of staff receiving a bonus in the 12 months to 5th April 2017

Pay Quartiles

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Guthrum added 21:15 - Apr 4 Largely meaningless excersise in something like a football club. Better to look at whether people doing the same job are getting the same pay.
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Marshalls_Mullet added 21:19 - Apr 4 No surprises there at all. Gender pay gap is a bit of a non story.
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Ftnfwest added 21:21 - Apr 4 Totally, it's illegal not to pay the same for the same job regardless of gender anyway.
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RevAdrian added 21:35 - Apr 4 This is actually a meaningfully exercise in the context of any organisation. The particular circumstances of .many organisations...including football clubs...may make the results challenging to interpret but, in a family club as we are (I still hope!) It is extra important to do so.
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RevAdrian added 21:37 - Apr 4 This is actually a meaningfully exercise in the context of any organisation. The particular circumstances of .many organisations...including football clubs...may make the results challenging to interpret but, in a family club as we are (I still hope!) It is extra important to do so.
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carsey added 21:50 - Apr 4 Absolute waste of time and energy.
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Popeye added 21:51 - Apr 4 250 employees for a mid table championship club seems over staffed to me. I read somewhere a while back that town had more employees than man utd
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RevAdrian added 21:58 - Apr 4 Well...let us not address the issue then?
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H1960 added 22:01 - Apr 4 What a load of b#locks what the he'll is the world coming to
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ashp19 added 22:42 - Apr 4 paying Michelle McCarthy too much!
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Europablue added 23:04 - Apr 4 It's incredible that by law every mid-sized to large company has to waste time and money producing these stats, and what are they required to do with these results? Force women to aspire to live their lives in a way that will maximize their earning potential regardless of how unhappy it will make them? If the Conservative government really cared about business, they would scrap this awful red tape. No-one has been able to explain to me why it is important that the amount of money someone makes should be influenced by their sex. People who push for irradicating the gender pay gap are advocating for women to be paid more for less effort or having fewer qualifications, otherwise they would be pushing for a meritocracy where people are paid what they are worth. We don't need anything other than the laws we already have to make sure everyone gets paid the same for the same job with the same experience etc.

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Marshalls_Mullet added 23:16 - Apr 4 Men clearly under represented in the corporate hospitality team... sort it out town!! Sexism!!
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shoopdelang added 00:17 - Apr 5 So stupid. Completely pointless
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Fat_Boy_Tim added 00:22 - Apr 5 Europablue - I think you might have misunderstood the point of equal pay for equal work. The point of the legislation is to make sure that staff doing the same job don't get paid according to their gender. It is only possible to address this if we have information about current pay practices. The gap (which frankly clearly exists) is between staff of the same level and experience/qualification level. This is something that any society should be ashamed of and the fact that it is being tackled should be lauded. I'm no fan of the Conservative party but I fail to see where asking companies to prove they are following thew law should be attacked. We are not so naive that we trust the tax returns of all private enterprises without question, why should employment law be any different? On a further note - Reading the ignorant and unpleasant views above about a legal matter, shouldn't this item be one of those without the comments? TWTD isn't the platform to discuss gender pay equality. (Even as I do just that!)

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Europablue added 07:08 - Apr 5 Fat Boy Tim, I'm pretty sure you have missed the point on this. If women were being paid that much less for the same work it would be a national scandal and women would be due huge pay outs, that just isn't the case. The you.gov website states that companies must disclose: mean gender pay gap in hourly pay median gender pay gap in hourly pay mean bonus gender pay gap median bonus gender pay gap proportion of males and females receiving a bonus payment proportion of males and females in each pay quartile These stats absolutely do not reflect people being paid less because of their gender. It's not a legitimate goal to pay men and women the same for different positions with different levels of experience, commitment to their careers, qualifications, etc. It's a waste of time and money and is morally wrong because it gives the impression that women are being paid less because of their gender. The only fair system is one based on merit. Otherwise, the goal is to pay women more money for less work. Your own view is ignorant, and attempting to shut down the conversation just shows that your argument doesn't hold water.

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muhrensleftfoot added 07:44 - Apr 5 The surprise for me is that ITFC have more than 250 employees
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Marshalls_Mullet added 08:38 - Apr 5 Fat boy Tim - you have completely misunderstood the gender pay gap. It has nothing to do with comparing jobs on a like for like basis!! That's what makes it so pointless.
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Europablue added 08:53 - Apr 5 Marshalls Mullet, it's worse than pointless, it's sinister.
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GatesofDelirium added 09:04 - Apr 5 Great post Europablue. This asinine policy denies meritocracy.
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Marshalls_Mullet added 09:07 - Apr 5 Europablue.... I think that Fat Boy Tim's response shows how misleading all the reports on the 'gender pay gap' have been. People who dont read past the headlines think that it relates to whether people are being paid equally for doing the same job which would of course be a bigger issue. Luckily nearly every country in the developed world has it enshrined in law that people showed be paid equally regardless of gender. The gender pay gap analysis fails to take into account life CHOICES made by women, and men.

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TimmyH added 11:03 - Apr 5 Yawn!...
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Northstandveteran added 11:49 - Apr 5 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Skip73 added 12:32 - Apr 5 Stupid Political Correctness... Again!! Its all we see on the News these days. Real news comes a distant 2nd.
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Nthsuffolkblue added 13:29 - Apr 5 Popeye - according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/383940/manchester-united-employees-by-sector 2017 Man Utd had 865 staff.
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Ipswichbusiness added 16:47 - Apr 5 The trouble with this exercise is that it is about average pay, not equal pay; they are completely different. Equal pay is about people in comparable jobs getting equal pay. This is simply about the average of genders regardless of job roles, hours worked, qualifications, etc. I heard an academic on the radio saying that if a first year undergraduate designed an experiment like this he would fail him. However, the Government imposes this cost on business without thought.

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