Pay gap toolkit
The People Like Us mission is to help foster a fairer workplace through equitable pay. We feel passionately about addressing pay gaps in our industries and beyond. We’re asking the government to reconsider making ethnicity pay gap reporting mandatory for companies (please take a moment to sign this petition). It will truly create huge strides in making a fairer and more equal society.
In the meanwhile, we are also asking all HR leads, payroll professionals, CEOs and business leaders to measure their pay gaps using this free tool. If this is you, you can download the free kit below. It’s a simple exercise that will help you ascertain any gaps in the organisation and help foster equality in companies of any size.
In 2021, we challenged the communications industry to share their pay gap data in partnership with our friends at PR Week and The One Percent. While the findings were somewhat stark, it was incredibly important for the industry to identify the scale of the issue before we go about addressing it together.
We’ve created a free toolkit for organisations to measure their own pay gap. You can download this simple form here that will give you instructions on how to identify pay gaps in your organisation.
Self ID form
For companies that do not have identification data for staff, we’ve created a simple form you can share with your employees here. You can either:
Make a copy on Google Forms by clicking this link - you will become the owner of the copy of the form. Send to your staff to fill in by simply clicking send and adding their email addresses. Each member of staff will only be able to reply once
If you’d prefer to work offline, download the form as a PDF (to do this, click the three dots on the top right-hand corner of the page, select print, then select save as PDF)
Or you can copy and paste sections in the Self ID form and input them into your preferred system
Pay Gap form
You can view the Pay Gap form here. To download it, click File (top left corner) then select Download. It includes guidance on how to complete the form and of course you are most welcome to contact People Like Us for guidance here. We are a small team that experience high levels of enquiries so please bear with us. If you’ve used this tool and it’s been a useful exercise, please drop us a line to let us know how it went.
Anything else
This isn’t an exercise to call anyone out. Rather it’s a simple way to keep tabs on how people from different groups are being paid at each level. We can all universally agree that nobody should earn less because of the colour of their skin, their sexual preference, their disability, gender or anything else that isn't related to their performance.
We’d love to know what you think. If you have any comments or feedback, please do drop us a line on our contact us page.
