Middlesex University Core Staff Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting 31 March 2022

Ethnicity Pay Gap – Voluntary Reporting

Middlesex University recognises and is committed to challenging the structural barriers experienced by people of colour. To enable us to create equity within the University we are voluntarily reporting our ethnicity pay gap and will take steps to address it.

Unlike gender pay gap reporting, ethnicity pay gap reporting is not required by law but there are growing calls to make it a statutory requirement.

We have obtained a Bronze Award for our Race Equality Charter Application which contains actions to address the data collected.

We agreed to include all hourly paid staff and students where possible from 2022 hence the data set will have altered from the 2020 and 2021 pay gaps.

Middlesex University’s ethnicity pay gap (Core and hourly paid excluding MU Services Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary which has fewer than 250 staff and is exempt from mandatory reporting) at the reporting date of 31 March 2023 was 9.7% (mean or average), this compares with 2022’s figure of 14.0% (mean or average), and 9.7% (median) compared with 2022’s figure of 10.5% (median) in favour of white staff. This figure is based on an employee headcount of 2,372 (including hourly paid staff and students).

Middlesex University Core Staff Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting – 31 March 2023

Hourly rate

The Mean and Median ethnicity pay gap based on an hourly rate of ordinary pay:

	Mean ethnicity pay gap	Median ethnicity pay gap	Total employees
White	£27.17	£25.90	1,256
BAME	£24.54	£23.39	556
Gap %	9.7%	9.7%	2,372 employees

Bonus pay

The Mean and Median bonus ethnicity pay gap and the proportion of BAME and White employees receiving a bonus payment:

	Mean ethnicity bonus gap	Median ethnicity bonus gap	Proportion receiving bonus
White	9.3%	1.7%	2.1%
BAME	0.7%

Quartile pay band

The proportion of BAME and White employees in each hourly rate quartile pay band:

Pay band	Number of white employees	Percentage of white employees	Number of BAME employees	Percentage BAME employees
Quartile 1	52	53.6%	45	46.4%
Quartile 2	329	61.3%	208	38.7%
Quartile 3	405	68.9%	183	31.1%
Quartile 4	470	79.5%	121	20.5%