PwC post own pay gap failings to encourage 'true workplace diversity'

Professional services giant PwC has decided to publish that it pays its Black, Asian and minority-ethnic (BAME) UK staff almost 13% less than other employees in the country – The Independent reports.

However, the company says they are coming clean in an effort to “shine the spotlight on ethnicity in the workplace and encourage organisations to take action”.

Kevin Ellis, Chairman and Senior Partner at PwC said: “We need to start looking beyond the narrow lens of gender, otherwise true workplace diversity won’t be achieved.”

Although there has been a lot of media and political scrutiny on the gender pay gap – with incoming legislation forcing companies with more than 250 employees to publish their own pay gap figures from April next year – there has been less focus on the racial pay gap.