Swale Borough Council
Swale Borough Council has submitted data every year since 2017, with all 9 submissions on time.
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Last submission received on Tuesday, 17 Feb 2026 at 11:21 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 11.1%
Submitted on Tuesday, 17 Feb 2026 at 11:21 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 88p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 69.3% of the highest paid quarter and 84.1% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2024 Mean pay gap 9.7%
Submitted on Wednesday, 5 Mar 2025 at 12:02 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 90p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 80.9% lower than men's.
Women made up 66.7% of the highest paid quarter and 80.6% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2023 Mean pay gap 10.1%
Submitted on Thursday, 18 Jan 2024 at 10:37 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 87p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 100.0% higher than men's.
Women made up 64.3% of the highest paid quarter and 79.7% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2022 Mean pay gap 14.5%
Submitted on Thursday, 9 Mar 2023 at 11:52 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 83p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 28.6% lower than men's.
Women made up 63.2% of the highest paid quarter and 78.7% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2021 Mean pay gap 14.0%
Submitted on Thursday, 10 Feb 2022 at 10:51 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 84p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 50.0% lower than men's.
Women made up 62.2% of the highest paid quarter and 70.7% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2020 Mean pay gap 18.4%
Submitted on Wednesday, 7 Apr 2021 at 14:29 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 81p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 70.0% lower than men's.
Women made up 58.3% of the highest paid quarter and 77.8% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2019 Mean pay gap 16.1%
Submitted on Tuesday, 17 Mar 2020 at 16:13 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 85p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 52.9% of the highest paid quarter and 72.9% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2018 Mean pay gap 15.8%
Submitted on Wednesday, 20 Feb 2019 at 13:28 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 82p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 50.7% of the highest paid quarter and 75.3% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2017 Mean pay gap 16.9%
Submitted on Friday, 19 Jan 2018 at 13:16 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 79p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 57.5% of the highest paid quarter and 82.2% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown