Construction’s Gender Pay Gap

As part of our work on Recruiting, Training and Retaining Talent, Build UK collates information each year on the Gender Pay Gap (GPG) of its Contractor members. Our latest report for 2023/24, which has been shared directly with our Contractor members that are required or choose to report their GPG, shows that women were paid on average 76p for every £1 men were paid, when comparing median hourly pay. Whilst this has improved slightly from 71p in 2017/18 when companies were first required to report this information, the GPG continues to be heavily impacted by the low number of women employed at all levels in the industry. This includes just 12.6% in the highest pay quartile in 2023/24 and it will take time and concentrated effort to improve.

We know that a diverse workforce offers significant benefits, including better innovation, improved productivity and higher staff retention, and Build UK will continue to support initiatives that help to drive the required changes. Details of all the latest work that we are doing can be found in the Build UK Recruit, Train and Retain update.