Specifically, an equal pay audit is an examination of pay data to determine if all employees are being paid fairly or whether some groups are being treated more favourably than others. After taking account of variables like job role, part-time status and length of service, a comparison is then made between the pay packages belonging to employees from different groups.

At Teesside we are proud of the fact that our lowest paid employees are in receipt of the Voluntary Living Wage, in contrast to the lower national minimum wage. We are committed to retaining an in-house manual workforce and continuing to pay them the Voluntary Living Wage, and consequently ensuring that those fulfilling such roles receive a fair wage for their work.

We continually develop our management information in relation to staff, this has included undertaking equal pay audits. The information and audits have included a range of data that enables the University to identify protected characteristics in relation to categories concerning staff (such as age groups, contract types, grade levels) alongside comparisons for ethnicity, disability and gender.

The University continually monitors equal pay as a separate overarching approach to ensure that it continues to meet the requirements of the Equal Pay Act. The audit gives greater granularity to different pay bands and the variances within each, noting that these variances are more likely to be a result of an individual's length of service, as staff joining the University will usually start at the bottom of their appointed grade and then progress up the scale on an annual basis.

Key headlines from the Equal Pay Audit 2023 are shown below:

• Gender: The overall female/male gender split variance stands at -15.6%. The largest variance between gender in terms of contract types is -22% within senior management including the University Executive Team (UET). This is a decrease from 4% from 2022. The smallest variance is 0%, which is between genders with a senior professional and technical contract.
• Ethnic minority staff: The ethnic minority/non-ethnic minority variance is positive at 2.6%; and in terms contract type it is -20.2% within senior management, including UET. The smallest variance is -0.7%, which is between people from ethnic minority backgrounds/not from ethnic minority backgrounds from technical and professional.
• Disability: The disability/non disability variance is -9.3% between disabled and non-disabled staff. The largest variance between disabled/not disabled in terms contract type is -29.5% within senior management, including UET. The smallest variance is 0.3%, which is between disabled/not disabled with a professional contract.
• Full time/part time comparison: The overall variance, regardless of gender between full time/part time contracts is 33.6%, where the average full-time salary is £42,786.72, and the average part-time salary is £32,018.41.

Full details from the Equality Pay Audit are shown below. To protect the identity of individual members of staff data has been removed where the staff represented in that group is less than five. In relation to gender further details are included in the separate Gender Pay Gap report published March 2023.

Gender

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Administrative and clerical	563	£29,217.09	171	£29,984.22	734	£29,395.81	-2.6%
Graduate tutor	1	£28,929.00	1	£28,131.00	2	£28,530.00	2.8%
Manual	144	£21,399.25	28	£23,740.39	172	£21,780.37	-9.9%
Professorial	12	£79,723.00	21	£80,106.00	33	£79,966.73	-0.5%
Research	36	£35,797.31	31	£36,672.32	67	£36,202.16	-2.4%
Security	3	£26,119.67	20	£25,062.05	23	£25,200.00	4.2%
Senior academic	16	£75,747.88	18	£77,299.44	34	£76,569.29	-2.0%
Senior management including UET	98	£50,774.15	78	£50,784.77	176	£50,778.86	0.0%
Senior professional and technical	321	£47,929.29	333	£48,160.62	654	£48,047.07	-0.5%
Teaching	46	£32,012.28	113	£34,362.65	159	£33,682.67	-6.8%
Technical	46	£32,012.28	113	£34,362.65	159	£33,682.67	-6.8%
Total	1272	£37,522.54	840	£44,438.24	2112	£40,273.10	-15.6%

Full time/part time

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Full time		Part time
Administrative and clerical	530	£29,825.56	204	£28,279.29	734	£29,395.81	5.5%
Graduate tutor	2	£28,530.00			2	£28,530.00
Manual	42	£23,357.10	130	£21,270.96	172	£21,780.37	9.8%
Professorial	30	£79,991.10	3	£79,723.00	33	£79,966.73	0.3%
Research	43	£36,182.72	24	£36,237.00	67	£36,202.16	-0.1%
Security	21	£25,246.19	2	£24,715.00	23	£25,200.00	2.1%
Senior academic	33	£76,432.67	1	£81,078.00	34	£76,569.29	-5.7%
Senior management including UET	56	£99,065.00	2	£83,263.00	58	£98,520.10	19.0%
Senior professional and technical	150	£50,924.59	26	£49,938.08	176	£50,778.86	2.0%
Teaching	580	£47,844.18	74	£49,637.31	654	£48,047.07	-3.6%
Technical	132	£33,955.38	27	£32,349.44	159	£33,682.67	5.0%
Total	1619	£42,786.72	493	£32,018.41	2112	£40,273.10	-33.6%

Ethnic minority

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Variance (EM vs Not-EM)
	Ethnic minority		Not ethnic minority		Not known
Administrative and clerical	47	£26,650.60	680	£29,593.68	7	£28,929.00	734	-9.9%
Graduate tutor	1	£28,131.00	1	£28,929.00			2	-2.8%
Manual	7	£21,233.00	164	£21,270.96	1		172	-2.6%
Professorial	7	£79,499.57	26	£80,092.50			33	-0.7%
Research	25	£34,808.84	41	£37,097.80	1		67	-6.2%
Security			23	£25,200.00			23
Senior academic	1	£69,818.00	33	£76,773.88			34	-9.1%
Senior management including UET	2	£79,345.50	55	£99,384.98	1		58	-20.2%
Senior professional and technical	9	£52,167.56	167	£50,704.02			176	2.9%
Teaching	183	£44,949.75	458	£49,481.00	13		654	-9.2%
Technical	22	£33,466.27	137	£33,717.42			159	-0.7%
Total	304	£41,171.51	1785	£40,146.15	23	£38,250.57	2112	2.6%

Disability

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Variance (disabled vs not disabled)
	Disabled		Not disabled		Not known
Administrative and clerical	69	£29,936.65	665	£29,339.69			734	2.0%
Graduate tutor			2	£28,530.00			2
Manual	11	£21,236.00	161	£21,817.56			172	-2.7%
Professorial	1	£79,723.00	32	£79,974.34			33	-0.3%
Research	3	£35,501.33	64	£36,235.02			67	-2.0%
Security	2	£24,715.00	21	£25,246.19			23	-2.1%
Senior academic			34	£76,569.29			34
Senior management including UET	1	£69,818.00	57	£99,023.65			58	-29.5%
Senior professional and technical	12	£49,933.00	164	£50,840.75			176	-1.8%
Teaching	31	£51,053.26	623	£47,897.49			654	6.6%
Technical	12	£35,898.58	147	£33,501.78			159	7.2%
Total	142	£36,741.76	1970	£40,527.64			2112	-9.3%

Age band

Age band	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
<21			2	£22,889.50	2	£22,889.50
21-30	153	£29,030.82	89	£30,358.22	242	£29,519.00	-4.4%
31-40	329	£36,012.85	234	£40,641.02	563	£37,936.46	-11.4%
41-50	342	£41,406.42	252	£47,136.59	594	£43,837.40	-12.2%
51-60	329	£40,619.16	210	£51,198.60	539	£44,741.02	-20.7%
>60	119	£32,890.94	53	£46,043.98	172	£36,943.91	-28.6%
Total	1272	£37,522.54	840	£44,438.24	2112	£40,273.10	-15.6%

School professionals and senior management

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Senior management including UET	9	£87,209.67	3	£91,184.33	12	£88,203.33	-4.4%
Senior professional and technical	8	£53,539.13	12	£49,877.17	20	£51,341.95	7.3%
Total	17	£71,364.71	15	£58,138.60	32	£65,164.97	22.7%

Department professionals and senior management

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Senior management including UET	23	£87,595.70	23	£114,827.17	46	£101,211.43	-23.7%
Senior professional and technical	90	£50,528.38	66	£50,949.79	156	£50,706.67	-0.8%
Total	113	£58,073.05	89	£67,457.43	202	£62,207.75	-13.9%

Academic/teaching professionals

Grade	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Grade 5	1	£28,929.00	1	£28,131.00	2	£28,530.00	2.8%
Grade 7	105	£38,520.60	92	£38,606.54	197	£38,560.74	-0.2%
Grade 7-8a-8b	96	£53,018.32	109	£53,477.74	205	£53,262.60	-0.9%
Grade 8ab	72	£45,869.06	86	£44,318.65	158	£45,025.16	3.5%
Grade 9	49	£61,494.96	45	£61,489.91	94	£61,492.54	0.0%
Professor	12	£79,723.00	23	£80,043.96	35	£79,933.91	-0.4%
Senior academic	10	£74,322.00	12	£75,447.92	22	£74,936.14	-1.5%
Total	272	£49,794.41	281	£50,907.18	553	£50,368.74	-2.2%

Support staff

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Administrative and clerical	563	£29,217.09	171	£29,984.22	734	£29,395.81	-2.6%
Manual	144	£21,399.25	28	£23,740.39	172	£21,780.37	-9.9%
Security	3	£26,119.67	20	£25,062.05	23	£25,200.00	4.2%
Technical	46	£32,012.28	113	£34,362.65	159	£33,682.67	-6.8%
Total	756	£27,885.76	332	£30,651.36	1088	£28,729.68	-9.0%

Research staff

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Research	36	£35,797.31	31	£36,672.32	67	£36,202.16	-2.4%
Total	36	£35,797.31	31	£36,672.32	67	£36,202.16	-2.4%

Gender by grade

Grade	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Grade 1	112	£21,222.35	10	£21,225.90	122	£21,222.64	0.0%
Grade 2	21	£21,297.19	2	£21,299.00	23	£21,297.35	0.0%
Grade 2-3	57	£22,060.63	18	£21,768.61	75	£21,990.55	1.3%
Grade 3	9	£22,107.00			9	£22,107.00
Grade 4	136	£24,004.79	65	£24,057.92	201	£24,021.98	-0.2%
Grade 4-5	4	£24,703.50	2	£23,507.50	6	£24,304.83	5.1%
Grade 5	159	£27,382.91	72	£27,430.44	231	£27,397.73	-0.2%
Grade 6	133	£32,233.11	66	£32,896.91	199	£32,453.27	-2.0%
Grade 6-7	26	£34,353.00	21	£33,713.19	47	£34,067.13	1.9%
Grade 7	224	£38,414.46	184	£38,724.93	408	£38,554.48	-0.8%
Grade 7-8a-8b	96	£53,018.32	109	£53,477.74	205	£53,262.60	-0.9%
Grade 8a	51	£45,162.71	33	£44,888.15	84	£45,054.85	0.6%
Grade 8ab	84	£46,294.89	90	£44,656.46	174	£45,447.43	3.7%
Grade 8b	20	£51,870.35	34	£51,826.76	54	£51,842.91	0.1%
Grade 9	74	£61,109.34	61	£61,073.05	135	£61,092.94	0.1%
Professor	12	£79,723.00	23	£80,043.96	35	£79,933.91	-0.4%
Senior academic	10	£74,322.00	12	£75,447.92	22	£74,936.14	-1.5%
Senior management	37	£86,578.05	26	£93,273.65	63	£89,341.32	-7.2%
VCE			5	£178,970.60	5	£178,970.60
Total	1265	£37,522.54	833	£44,438.24	2112	£40,273.10	-15.6%

Note: There are some senior academics on the senior management grade