Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council has submitted data every year since 2017, with all 9 submissions on time.
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Last submission received on Wednesday, 11 Feb 2026 at 15:27 UTC.
Overall workforce composition
Deviation from a 50:50 gender split, averaged across all four pay quartiles per year. 0% represents an equal split of men and women; positive values mean more women, negative means fewer women.
Hourly pay gap over time
Positive values indicate women's hourly pay is lower than men's by that percentage. A value of 0 indicates equal pay; negative values indicate women earn more.
Pay quartile breakdown
Each band shows the percentage of that quartile that is male vs female.
Lower quartile bottom 25% of earners
Lower-middle quartile 25–50th percentile
Upper-middle quartile 50–75th percentile
Top quartile top 25% of earners
Bonus pay
Percentage of each gender who received a bonus payment.
Bonus pay gap — positive values indicate women's bonus pay is lower than men's.
Year by year
Each year's submission in full. Most recent year shown first.
2025 Mean pay gap 1.7%
Submitted on Wednesday, 11 Feb 2026 at 15:27 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.04 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 65.9% of the highest paid quarter and 76.6% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2024 Mean pay gap 2.9%
Submitted on Monday, 17 Mar 2025 at 11:56 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.03 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 64.1% of the highest paid quarter and 75.8% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2023 Mean pay gap 4.0%
Submitted on Tuesday, 9 Jan 2024 at 18:35 UTC.
In this organisation, women and men earned the same median hourly pay.
Women made up 65.5% of the highest paid quarter and 80.7% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2022 Mean pay gap 5.0%
Submitted on Thursday, 19 Jan 2023 at 15:56 UTC.
In this organisation, women and men earned the same median hourly pay.
Women made up 60.0% of the highest paid quarter and 81.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2021 Mean pay gap 2.2%
Submitted on Thursday, 24 Feb 2022 at 17:37 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.00 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 67.0% of the highest paid quarter and 69.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2020 Mean pay gap 4.8%
Submitted on Friday, 3 Sept 2021 at 09:13 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 96p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 12.5% lower than men's.
Women made up 64.0% of the highest paid quarter and 75.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2019 Mean pay gap 5.3%
Submitted on Tuesday, 24 Mar 2020 at 11:22 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 98p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 19.3% lower than men's.
Women made up 64.8% of the highest paid quarter and 76.7% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2018 Mean pay gap 4.9%
Submitted on Monday, 25 Mar 2019 at 16:46 UTC.
In this organisation, women and men earned the same median hourly pay.
Women made up 63.4% of the highest paid quarter and 68.3% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2017 Mean pay gap 7.9%
Submitted on Thursday, 15 Mar 2018 at 10:31 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 89p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 60.2% of the highest paid quarter and 79.4% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown