The British Museum
The British Museum has submitted data every year since 2017, with all 9 submissions on time.
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Last submission received on Thursday, 29 Jan 2026 at 15:22 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 -2.0%
Submitted on Thursday, 29 Jan 2026 at 15:22 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.06 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 8.0% higher than men's.
Women made up 63.0% of the highest paid quarter and 62.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2024 Mean pay gap -1.0%
Submitted on Friday, 17 Jan 2025 at 16:43 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.09 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 65.0% of the highest paid quarter and 61.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2023 Mean pay gap -1.0%
Submitted on Wednesday, 20 Mar 2024 at 11:18 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.12 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 1.0% lower than men's.
Women made up 63.0% of the highest paid quarter and 62.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2022 Mean pay gap 0.0%
Submitted on Wednesday, 22 Mar 2023 at 16:52 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.09 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 82.0% lower than men's.
Women made up 61.0% of the highest paid quarter and 60.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2021 Mean pay gap -2.0%
Submitted on Thursday, 24 Mar 2022 at 16:06 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.10 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 15.0% lower than men's.
Women made up 63.0% of the highest paid quarter and 52.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2020 Mean pay gap 0.0%
Submitted on Tuesday, 21 Sept 2021 at 11:11 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.09 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 20.0% lower than men's.
Women made up 59.0% of the highest paid quarter and 48.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2019 Mean pay gap 1.0%
Submitted on Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 11:26 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.08 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 3.0% lower than men's.
Women made up 55.0% of the highest paid quarter and 45.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2018 Mean pay gap 2.0%
Submitted on Thursday, 2 Aug 2018 at 10:40 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.08 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 9.0% higher than men's.
Women made up 54.0% of the highest paid quarter and 52.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2017 Mean pay gap 0.0%
Submitted on Friday, 25 Aug 2017 at 16:06 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned £1.04 for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 57.0% of the highest paid quarter and 49.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown