Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Pay
(asked on 10th February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the average hourly earnings of (a) female, (b) male, (c) full-time and (d) part-time employees of his Department were in each of the last five years.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office pays salaries according to a fixed banding structure. Pay rates, including hourly rates, for each band are the same for male and female employees.
The average hourly earnings for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office UK based staff, taken as a snapshot on the 31st of December each year, are:
| Female | Male | Full-time | Part-time |
2015 | £18.63 | £22.58 | £20.83 | 17.98 |
2014 | £18.33 | £22.19 | £20.54 | 17.74 |
2013 | Data not yet available | |||
2012 | Data not yet available | |||
2011 | Data not yet available | |||
Average earnings and average salaries are determined by a number of factors – length of service, levels of performance, promotions, type of work etc but a key factor is the distribution of staff throughout the FCO grading structure.
Further information on average salaries of staff is available on pages 6, 10 and 11 of the FCO Diversity & Equality report 2015.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/450587/FFFCO827_Equality_Report_2015_v5.pdf
The figures do not include local staff directly employed by our embassies and missions overseas. To obtain this data would incur disproportionate cost.