Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Pay
(asked on 13th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average hourly earnings are of (a) female, (b) male, (c) BAME and (d) non-BAME employees of his Department.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was created on 14 July 2016. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) were merged to create this new department.
The median salaries for male and females in the table below are published on the Office for National Statistics website every October. This relates to information as at 31 March 2016.
| BIS | DECC |
Male | £39,630 | £48,900 |
Female | £35,410 | £36,160 |
The median salaries of BAME and non-BAME staff in the table below have been calculated using data as at October 2016. These figures reflect the different levels of seniority of the employees that have provided their ethnicity information. This information is declared by individual employees on a voluntary basis.
| BIS | DECC |
BAME | £32,090 | £36,142 |
Non-BAME | £48,192 | £49,420 |
Please note; the information supplied is based on staff working 36 or 37 hours a week (dependent on contract and location).