Food Standards Agency
Food Standards Agency has submitted data every year since 2017, with all 9 submissions on time.
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Last submission received on Thursday, 5 Mar 2026 at 18:59 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 -5.1%
Submitted on Thursday, 5 Mar 2026 at 18:59 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.12 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 53.6% of the highest paid quarter and 37.4% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2024 Mean pay gap -5.9%
Submitted on Friday, 28 Mar 2025 at 09:47 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.10 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 53.0% of the highest paid quarter and 35.7% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2023 Mean pay gap -8.7%
Submitted on Wednesday, 27 Mar 2024 at 09:40 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.16 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 14.3% higher than men's.
Women made up 53.5% of the highest paid quarter and 25.6% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2022 Mean pay gap -7.8%
Submitted on Monday, 27 Mar 2023 at 10:17 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.21 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 49.3% of the highest paid quarter and 22.4% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2021 Mean pay gap -9.5%
Submitted on Tuesday, 29 Mar 2022 at 16:02 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.23 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 40.0% higher than men's.
Women made up 47.4% of the highest paid quarter and 23.1% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2020 Mean pay gap -9.6%
Submitted on Thursday, 3 Jun 2021 at 09:43 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.22 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 51.4% of the highest paid quarter and 25.7% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2019 Mean pay gap -8.0%
Submitted on Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 10:04 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.15 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 46.4% of the highest paid quarter and 25.6% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2018 Mean pay gap -9.3%
Submitted on Tuesday, 15 Jan 2019 at 09:44 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.18 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 43.7% of the highest paid quarter and 25.5% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2017 Mean pay gap -9.4%
Submitted on Wednesday, 14 Mar 2018 at 15:25 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.17 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 5.5% lower than men's.
Women made up 41.4% of the highest paid quarter and 24.6% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown