Metropolitan Police Service
Metropolitan Police Service has submitted data every year since 2017, with all 9 submissions on time.
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Last submission received on Friday, 2 Jan 2026 at 12:38 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 5.9%
Submitted on Friday, 2 Jan 2026 at 12:38 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 92p 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 29.4% of the highest paid quarter and 48.3% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2024 Mean pay gap 6.1%
Submitted on Wednesday, 5 Mar 2025 at 15:27 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 89p 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 28.7% of the highest paid quarter and 48.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2023 Mean pay gap 6.4%
Submitted on Friday, 1 Mar 2024 at 09:29 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 89p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 28.0% of the highest paid quarter and 46.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2022 Mean pay gap 5.9%
Submitted on Monday, 20 Mar 2023 at 07:54 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 90p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 28.8% of the highest paid quarter and 44.4% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2021 Mean pay gap 6.3%
Submitted on Friday, 11 Mar 2022 at 10:25 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 90p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 27.2% of the highest paid quarter and 44.5% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2020 Mean pay gap 6.1%
Submitted on Friday, 24 Sept 2021 at 10:14 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 89p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 18.6% lower than men's.
Women made up 27.0% of the highest paid quarter and 43.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2019 Mean pay gap 6.0%
Submitted on Tuesday, 1 Oct 2019 at 12:53 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 91p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 27.0% of the highest paid quarter and 44.0% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2018 Mean pay gap 7.0%
Submitted on Thursday, 17 Jan 2019 at 16:01 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 90p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women made up 25.4% of the highest paid quarter and 42.3% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown
2017 Mean pay gap 7.2%
Submitted on Monday, 19 Mar 2018 at 09:42 UTC.
In this organisation, women earned 88p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median hourly pay.
Women's median bonus pay was 7.4% higher than men's.
Women made up 23.7% of the highest paid quarter and 42.5% of the lowest paid quarter.
Pay quartile breakdown