Pay Ratio 2013

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Rustam Majainah

Dear University of Essex,

Please could you send the following information as outlined in the Freedom of Information Act for the year ending 31 July 2013, or for the financial year in which 31 July 2013 falls. If information for that period is not yet available, please use the most recent information you have. Please specify what period this information refers to at the beginning of your answer.

1. i) The number of individuals employed by the university who receive total remuneration* of £140,000 pa or more.

ii) The number of these individuals who are women.

2. The total remuneration* of the highest paid employee.

3. i) The number of individuals directly employed by the university who are paid less than the Living Wage of £7.65 per hour [or £8.80 per hour within Greater London].

ii) The number of these individuals (paid less than Living Wage) who are women.

iii) If available, the number of individuals employed by outside contractors to provide services at your university who are paid less than the Living Wage of £7.65 per hour [or £8.80 per hour within Greater London].

iv) Whether your university has a policy to require on-site staff working for external contractors to be paid Living Wage rates as a minimum.

4. i) The number of employees paid at exactly the National Minimum Wage, including those employed by outside contractors to work at your university.

ii) The number of these individuals (paid at exactly National Minimum Wage) who are women.

5. i) The number of apprentices employed by your university.

ii) The lowest remuneration* received by apprentices employed by your university.

6. The ratio between the total remuneration* of the highest-paid employee and the total remuneration* of the lowest-paid employee.

7. The ratio between the total remuneration* of the highest-paid employee and the total remuneration* of the median-paid employee.

*[adapted from the government's definition of remuneration (for local authority chief officers) under section 43 of the Localism Act 2011] Remuneration meaning:
(a)salary or, in the case of an individual engaged under a contract for services, payments made by the university to the individual those services,
(b)any bonuses payable by the university to the individual,
(c)any charges, fees or allowances payable by the authority to the individual,
(d)any benefits in kind to which the individual is entitled as a result of their office or employment,
(e)any increase in or enhancement of the individual's pension entitlement where the increase or enhancement is as a result of a resolution of the university, and
(f)any amounts payable by the university to the individual on the individual ceasing to hold office under or be employed by the university, other than amounts that may be payable by virtue of any enactment.
(g) calculated as full-time equivalent

Yours faithfully,

Rustam Majainah

Freedom Of Information Requests, University of Essex

Dear Rustam

Thank you for your request. I will respond as soon as I am able and in any case within the 20 working days allowed. If you have any further request in the meantime do lease contact me.

Regards

Sara

Sara Stock
Information Manager
Governance Office
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex
CO4 3SQ

T +44 (0)1206 874853
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Freedom Of Information Requests, University of Essex

Dear Rustam

 

I am writing to ask you to explain more clearly part of your request on
salary ratios.

 

You ask for information related to for the year ending 31 July 2013, or
for the financial year in which 31 July 2013 falls. Our financial year
runs from 1 August to 31 July. You also ask for information about staff
who are paid less than the Living Wage of £7.65 per hour.

 

My colleagues in HR tell me that this rate of £7.65 per hour for the
living wage did not come  in to force until November 2013, after your
timescale.

 

Would you like us to try to provide current information for the current,
incomplete, financial year with the £7.65 rate? Or would you like us to
supply data for the year ending 31 July 2014 using the rate for the living
wage that was then current?

 

Please let me know.

 

You should note that the we will stop counting down on the 20 days for
this part of your questions until we hear back from you.

 

Please do ask if you have any questions about this.

 

Regards

 

Sara

 

Sara Stock

Information Manager

Governance Office

University of Essex

Wivenhoe Park

Colchester

Essex

CO4 3SQ

 

T +44 (0)1206 874853

E [University of Essex request email]

 

Rustam Majainah

Dear Sara,

Yes, other universities have noticed this typo as well. Please use the July 2013 Living Wage figure of £7.45 instead.

Yours sincerely,

Rustam Majainah

Freedom Of Information Requests, University of Essex

Dear Rustam

Thank you for this. I will be in touch again soon.

Regards

Sara

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Freedom Of Information Requests, University of Essex

Dear Rustam

 

I am writing to respond to your request of 22 June about staff salary
ratios. As agreed we have used the £7.45 figure for the living wage which
was current in July 2013.

 

1. i) The number of individuals employed by the university who receive
total remuneration* of £140,000 pa or more. Two

 

ii) The number of these individuals who are women. Nil

 

2. The total remuneration* of the highest paid employee. £220,000

 

3. i) The number of individuals directly employed by the university who
are paid less than the Living Wage of £7.45 per hour [or £8.80 per hour
within Greater London].  142 permanent and fixed term staff and 215 hourly
paid staff

ii) The number of these individuals (paid less than Living Wage) who are
women. 93 permanent and fixed term staff and 140 hourly paid staff

 

iii) If available, the number of individuals employed by outside
contractors to provide services at your university who are paid less than
the Living Wage of £7.65 per hour [or £8.80 per hour within Greater
London]. We do not hold information on outside contractors’ rates of pay.

 

iv) Whether your university has a policy to require on-site staff working
for external contractors to be paid Living Wage rates as a minimum. No

 

4. i) The number of employees paid at exactly the National Minimum Wage,
including those employed by outside contractors to work at your
university. No employees employed by the university or its subsidiary
companies were paid at exactly the NMW rate. We do not hold information on
outside contractors’ rates of pay.

 

ii) The number of these individuals (paid at exactly National Minimum
Wage) who are women. N/A

 

5. i) The number of apprentices employed by your university. 8

 

ii) The lowest remuneration* received by apprentices employed by your
university. £9,732

 

6. The ratio between the total remuneration* of the highest-paid employee
and the total remuneration* of the lowest-paid employee.  16.3:1

 

7. The ratio between the total remuneration* of the highest-paid employee
and the total remuneration* of the median-paid employee.   7.2:1

 

I hope that this information is useful. If you have any questions about
this response do please contact me.

 

Regards

 

Sara

 

Sara Stock

Information Manager

Governance Office

University of Essex

Wivenhoe Park

Colchester

Essex

CO4 3SQ

 

T +44 (0)1206 874853

E [University of Essex request email]