Women vs men top pay quartile: top 10 UK clothing retailers 2018

This statistic shows the distribution of women and men employed at leading apparel retailers in the top pay quartile in the United Kingdom (UK) as of April 2018. Of the leading retailers, Debenhams had the highest share women in the top pay quartile, at 78 percent. Sports Direct, Tesco, JD Sports and Asda are the four retailers which have fewer women than men in the highest pay quartile, with shares of 40.5 percent, 39.9 percent, 37.8 percent and 34.9 percent, respectively .
Since retail is a female dominated industry, there tends to be a higher share of women in higher paid positions than in other industries such as finance and insurance, and the professional, scientific and technical sectors. In some of the UK's largest banks, the share of women in the top pay quartile is as low as 19 percent.

Gender distribution in the top pay quartile of the leading 10 apparel retailers in the United Kingdom (UK) as of April 2018*

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Release date

2019

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

April 2018

Supplementary notes

* The retailers included are those with the largest shares of the apparel market as of 2018. All have 5,000 or more employees.

The source added the following information for methodology. 'Pay quartiles are calculated by splitting all employees in an organization into four even groups according to their level of pay. Looking at the proportion of women in each quartile gives an indication of women's representation at different levels of the organization.'

Fourth quartile = lowest paid; First/top quartile= highest paid.

** TJX UK is owned by the global parent company The TJX Companies, Inc. and trades under 'TK Maxx' in the UK.
This statistic is using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0

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