Disability Pay Gap

The University applies demographic categorisation in accordance with the requirements of HESA when collecting colleague disability data. The disability pay gap is calculated by comparing the average and median salary of disabled colleagues with the respective statistical data for non-disabled colleagues.

Historically, low disclosure rates made it difficult to conduct meaningful pay gap analysis by disability status. Despite this, the University can report that the number of those who have yet to disclose disability related data has reduced significantly from 29% in 2022 and now stands at 3.4% in 2024. However, this data must be considered in a context that only 9.2% of University colleagues have disclosed as disabled and a further 7.5% have chosen not to share disability related information.

The University can report progress in having reduced our disability pay gap and shows a decrease of 3.7% since 2020.

Table 7: A table providing average and median disability pay gap figures as at September 2024. The table highlights the average % gap decreasing by 3.7% points to 9.2% from 2020 to 2024. The median pay gap has decreased very slightly by 0.2% to 10.9%.

Table 7: UofG Average and Median Disability Pay Gaps: 2020 - 2024

 

The University is unable to categorically state the extent to which occupational segregation impacts upon our disability pay gap given the small numbers of those in scope. 

Colleagues having disclosed disability related information constitute 7% of our professoriate. Further, pay gap analysis of this cohort highlight that this group are, on average, paid higher than their non-disabled colleagues. However, this must be considered in the context that 11% of our professoriate have yet to share their disability status.

Figure 3: A graph providing the demographic spread for graded and zoned staff by disability. The graph shows Non-disabled colleagues as the largest cohort across all grades and zones. Grade 1 has the highest numbers of colleagues selecting “prefer not to say” at 44%. Disabled colleagues make up 9.2% of colleagues overall, with these predominately at Grade 3 (12%), Grade 4 (14%), Grade 6 (11%) and Zone 3 (11%). All other grades report less than 10% of disabled colleagues.

Figure 3: Demographic Spread of Disability Categories: Graded and Zoned Staff

 

Table 8: A table providing the average disability pay gap figure by grade as at September 2024. The pay gap across all grades fall within the permitted variance of +/-5% as defined by the EHRC. A average pay gap in favour of ‘non-disabled’ colleagues is evident at Grade 3 (1.1%), Grade 4 (0.4%), Grade 6 (0.6%), Grade 7 (0.2%), Grade 9 (1.1%), and Zone 1 (0.6%).

Table 8: Average and Median Equal Pay Gaps by Disability across Graded and Zoned colleagues (September 2024)