BHF shares latest Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap Report for 2023

We’re pleased to share the positive results of our latest Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap Report for 2023.

Gender pay gap

The latest report shows that the median gender pay gap at the BHF has increased slightly from -0.1% in 2022 to 0.7% in 2023 in favour of men. This represents a small shift from last year, when women on average were paid more than men.

The calculations on our median gender pay gap show that in 2023, men were paid 1p more than women, compared with 1p less in 2023.

Encouragingly, our gender pay gap remains close to zero, and we are proud to have a much smaller pay gap than the majority of other organisations in the UK.

Ethnicity pay gap

As part of our ongoing commitment to equality we also choose to report on our ethnicity pay gap. For 2023, our median ethnicity pay gap stands at 7.4% in favour of ethnically minoritised colleagues, a change from 12.2% in 2022.

Ethnically minoritised colleagues make up 10% of our overall workforce, and account for 11% of staff in the upper pay quartile.

Our chief executive

Speaking on the publication of our report, our Chief Executive, Charmaine Griffiths, said: “We’re pleased to share that BHF’s median gender pay gap remained less than 1% as we continue in our work to build a better BHF where all our talented colleagues do their best work and feel they belong in our life-saving team.”

“Making the world a fairer place is bigger than BHF alone, but we are proud to play our part – working across the UK’s four nations to tackle inequalities in cardiovascular health, improve the diversity of our research workforce, and make BHF a more inclusive place to work. I’m proud of what we have achieved so far - but the work continues.

What next?

Last year we said we’d prioritise a number of key areas including local recruitment focus in retail, bringing greater diversity into our graduate programme, building accountability – led by our senior leaders and continuing to strengthen our inclusive recruitment practices, and we have made good strides in all these areas.

While we continue to work to equalise our gender and ethnicity pay gaps, we recognise that our efforts to achieve a workforce, reflective of the profile of the UK, could in the short-term result in some gaps being exacerbated. We will continue to hold ourselves accountable and will monitor our position.

We look forward to building on our foundations as an inclusive and responsible organisation, keeping equality at the heart of our culture.