Social inequality | Is PwC about to reveal it pays working class staff LESS?

PwC is reportedly set to publish data about the pay gap between its employees from different social classes.

As first reported by This Is Money, and later City AM, the major accounting firm is set to release details later this week of the pay differences between staff from a 'lower socio-economic background' at one end, and the 'professional' class at the other.

According to City AM, PwC will base its criteria for social classes on the occupations held by the parents of its employees.

For example, employees whose parents worked as labourers will be considered from a lower socio-economic background, but those whose parents worked in senior or managerial positions would fall into the professional class.