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 2024 are shown below:

• Gender: The overall female/male gender split variance stands at -14%. The largest variance between gender in terms of contract types is -19.4% within Senior Management including the University Executive Team (UET). The smallest variance is -1.5%, 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%; and in terms contract type it is -17.9% within senior management, including UET. The smallest variance is 0.7%, which is between people from ethnic minority backgrounds/not from ethnic minority backgrounds with a Senior, Professional and Technical contract.
• Disability: The overall disabled/non-disabled variance stands at -9%. The largest variance between disabled/non-disabled in terms of contract type is -28.2% within senior management, including UET. The smallest variance is 0.1%, which is between disabled/not disabled with an Administration & Clerical contract.
• Full time/part time comparison:The overall variance, regardless of gender between full time/part time contracts is 33%, where the average full-time salary is £44,127.84 and the average part-time salary is £33,230.04.

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 2024.

Gender

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Administrative and clerical	541	£30,234.83	176	£31,230.15	717	£30,479.15	-3.2%
Graduate tutor
Manual	141	£23,140.50	38	£24,843.16	179	£23,501.96	-6.9%
Professorial	15	£82,068.00	28	£83,762.36	43	£83,171.30	-2.0%
Research	41	£36,303.49	39	£40,990.92	80	£38,588.61	-11.4%
Security	3	£29,442.33	22	£26,871.86	25	£27,180.32	9.6%
Senior academic	14	£77,138.07	17	£78,689.24	31	£77,988.71	-2.0%
Senior management including UET	36	£90,728.67	25	£112,541.20	61	£99,668.23	-19.4%
Senior professional and technical	104	£51,698.87	72	£52,511.00	176	£52,031.10	-1.5%
Teaching	352	£48,384.62	323	£49,215.82	675	£48,782.36	-1.7%
Technical	46	£32,513.43	108	£35,144.26	155	£34,363.50	-7.5%
Total	1293	£39,193.73	849	£45,506.71	2142	£41,695.93	-13.9%

Full time/part time comparison

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Full time		Part time
Administrative and clerical	521	£30,837.55	196	£29,526.48	717	£30,479.15	4.4%
Graduate tutor
Manual	45	£24,852.16	134	£23,048.53	179	£23,501.96	7.8%
Professorial	39	£83,031.64	4	£84,533.00	43	£83,171.30	-1.8%
Research	52	£40,416.87	28	£35,193.29	80	£38,588.61	14.8%
Security	23	£27,244.35	2	£26,444.00	25	£27,180.32	3.0%
Senior academic	30	£77,806.27	1	£83,462.00	31	£77,988.71	-6.8%
Senior management including UET	57	£100,029.98	4	£94,513.25	61	£99,668.23	5.8%
Senior professional and technical	156	£52,151.40	20	£51,092.80	176	£52,031.10	2.1%
Teaching	609	£48,544.21	66	£50,979.88	675	£48,782.36	-4.8%
Technical	132	£34,413.28	23	£34,077.78	155	£34,363.50	1.0%
Total	1664	£44,127.84	478	£33,230.04	2142	£41,695.93	32.8%

Ethnic minority information

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	54	£28,264.44	659	£30,643.51	4	£24,248.00	717	-7.8%
Graduate tutor
Manual	16	£23,172.75	161	£23,538.67	2	£23,209.00	179	-1.6%
Professorial	11	£82,068.00	32	£83,550.56			43	-1.8%
Research	37	££37,232.43	42	£39,997.24	1		80	-6.9%
Security			25	£27,180.32			25
Senior academic	2	£71,871.00	29	£78,410.62			31	-8.3%
Senior management including UET	2	£82,429.50	58	£100,396.12	1		61	-17.9%
Senior professional and technical	9	£52,388.44	167	£52,011.84			176	0.7%
Teaching	210	£45,729.86	454	£50,338.60	11	£39,942.00	675	-9.2%
Technical	18	£33,623.78	135	£34,519.65	2		155	-2.6%
Total	359	£42,245.09	1762	£41,608.14	21	£39,673.76	2142	1.5%

Disability information

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	63	£30,500.92	664	£30,477.05			717	0.1%
Graduate tutor
Manual	10	£23,367.10	169	£23,367.10			179	-0.6%
Professorial	2	£82,068.00	41	£83,225.12			43	-1.4%
Research	6	£39,716.67	74	£38,497.15			80	3.2%
Security	2	£26,444.00	23	£27,244.35			25	-2.9%
Senior academic			31	£77,988.71			31
Senior management including UET	1	£71,871.00	60	£100,131.52			61	-28.2%
Senior professional and technical	12	£50,393.08	164	£52,150.96			176	-3.4%
Teaching	29	£52,060.55	645	£48,641.98			674	7.0%
Technical	11	£36,225.36	144	£34,221.27			155	5.9%
Total	136	£38,201.29	2005	£41,931.69			2141	-8.9%

Note: 'Disability' is an inclusive definition, records are included by calculating where staff have specified either a long term health condition or disability (and is categorised by the broader definitions as provided by HESA), and not by whether a yes/no response has been declared.

Age band information

Age band	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
<21	1	£23,151.00	2	£23,306.00	3	£23,254.33	-0.7%
21-30	159	£30,383.03	81	£31,897.56	240	£30,894.18	-4.7%
31-40	351	£36,703.98	236	£41,053.86	587	£38,452.83	-10.6%
41-50	368	£43,750.00	271	£48,018.76	639	£45,560.38	-8.9%
51-60	315	£40,619.16	194	£51,554.51	509	£46,174.82	-16.9%
>60	99	£33,726.62	65	£50,792.46	174	£40,490.52	-33.6%
Total	1293	£39,193.73	849	£45,506.71	2142	£41,695.93	-13.9%

School professionals and senior management

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Senior management including UET	11	£91,738.45	5	£84,864.00	16	£89,590.19	8.1%
Senior professional and technical	13	£50,389.08	14	£52,390.07	27	£51,426.63	-3.8%
Total	24	£69,340.88	19	££60,935.84	43	£65,627.02	13.8%

Department professionals and senior management

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Senior management including UET	25	£90,284.36	20	£119,460.50	45	£103,251.53	-24.4%
Senior professional and technical	91	£51,885.98	58	£52,540.19	159	£52,140.64	-1.2%
Total	116	£60,161.49	78	£69,699.24	194	£63,996.26	-13.9%

Academic/teaching professionals

Grade	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Grade 5
Grade 7	131	£39,563.13	103	£40,097.74	234	£39,798.45	-1.3%
Grade 7-8a-8b	1	£52,815.00	2	£52,185.50	3	£52,395.33	1.2%
Grade 8ab	166	£45,869.06	174	£50,992.25	340	£51,095.39	0.4%
Grade 9	51	£62,461.80	43	£62,966.35	94	£62,692.61	-0.8%
Professor	15	£82,068.00	29	£83,703.93	44	£83,146.23	-2.0%
Senior academic	9	£75,469.78	13	£77,220.69	22	£76,504.41	-2.3%
Total	373	£50,420.40	364	£52,873.42	737	£51,625.39	-4.6%

Support staff

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Administrative and clerical	541	£30,234.83	176	£31,230.15	717	£30,479.15	-3.2%
Manual	141	£23,140.50	38	£24,843.16	179	£23,501.96	-6.9%
Security	3	£29,442.33	22	£26,871.86	25	£27,180.32	9.6%
Technical	46	£32,513.43	109	£35,144.26	159	£34,363.50	-7.5%
Total	731	£29,006.56	345	£31,485.37	1076	£29,801.35	-7.9%

Research staff

Contract type	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Research	41	£36,303.49	39	£40,990.92	80	£38,588.61	-11.4%
Total	41	£36,303.49	39	£40,990.92	80	£38,588.61	-11.4%

Gender by grade

Grade	Total	Average salary	Total	Average salary	Total	Total average salary	Variance
	Female		Male
Grade 1	101	£22,921.78	114	£23,155.14	115	£22,950.19	-1.0%
Grade 2	26	£23,258.08	3	£23,247.67	29	£23,257.00	0.0%
Grade 2-3	48	£23,435.21	17	£23,383.00	65	£23,421.55	0.2%
Grade 3	6	£23,537.33	3	£23,396.00	9	£23,490.22	0.6%
Grade 4	131	£24,562.31	41	£24,625.10	172	£24,577.28	-0.3%
Grade 4-5	4	£24,148.50	1	£23,700.00	5	£24,058.80	1.9%
Grade 5	154	£28,065.64	89	£27,873.73	243	£27,995.35	0.7%
Grade 6	139	£32,867.57	78	£33,060.53	217	£32,936.93	-0.6%
Grade 6-7	25	£35,621.00	17	£35,508.06	42	£35,575.29	0.3%
Grade 7	247	£39,426.12	193	£40,043.53	440	£39,696.94	-1.5%
Grade 7-8a-8b	1	£52,815.00	2	£52,185.50	3	£52,395.33	1.2%
Grade 8a	57	£45,423.95	27	£46,163.19	84	£45,661.56	-1.6%
Grade 8ab	178	£51,051.73	192	£50,577.64	370	£50,805.72	0.9%
Grade 8b	24	£51,551.83	33	£53,776.61	57	£52,839.86	-4.1%
Grade 9	78	£62,626.85	58	£62,573.93	136	£62,604.28	0.1%
Professor	15	£82,068.00	29	£83,703.93	44	£83,146.23	-2.0%
Senior academic	9	£75,469.78	13	£77,220.69	22	£76,504.41	-2.3%
Senior management	40	£90,002.00	25	£95,204.72	65	£92,003.05	-5.5%
VCE			4	£191,815.00	4	££191,815.00
Total	1283	£39,193.73	839	£45,506.71	2122	£41,695.93	-13.9%

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