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Channel 4 News host Jon Snow takes 25% 'gender pay cut’ (Jon Snow…
Channel 4 News host Jon Snow takes 25% 'gender pay cut’
Jon Snow
Channel 4 News presenter
voluntary 25% pay cut
close the gender pay gap
Channel 4 & ITN
Have to publish
Salaries
Men
Women
Before pay cut
Almost 1million £/year
Gender pay gap
Channel 4
30%
ITN
20%
BBC
11%
Alex Mahon
Channel 4’s new chief executive
Would act to reduce the gender pay gap
Increase the proportion of women in higher-paid roles
What is gender pay gap?
Difference
average hourly earnings
Women
Men
ONS
Based on median hourly earnings for all UK's workers
2017
Mean gender pay gap is 17.4%.
18.4%
Up 18.2% from a year earlier
Median gender pay gap
More representative figure
Mean can be skewed by a handful of highly paid employees
difference between the employee in the middle of the range of male wages and the employee in the middle of the range of female wages
Mean
Mean gender pay gap
Difference between mean male pay and mean female pay
Common known as the average
Adding up the wages of all employees and dividing that figure by the number of employees
Jim Waterson
The Guardian
17 May 2018
Major issue
Since publishing of BBC stars salaries
Differences
Males presenters
Working on same programmes
Females presenters
Carrie Gracie
Ex BBC China editor
Resignation
Protest
Being paid less
than her male counterparts
Guardian’s parent company
11.3% pay gap
Rupert Murdoch’s News UK
15.2% pay gap
Publisher of the Daily Mail
19.6% pay gap
Daily Telegraph
35% pay gap