Beverage brand Innocent Drinks UK has reported that its 2022 mean hourly gender pay gap was 10.8%, down from 13.68% in 2021.
Its 2022 median hourly gender pay gap was 6.7%, down from 9.73% in 2021. Its combined median gender pay gap, for everyone working in the UK, was 6.7%, having fallen from 9.7% the year before. A total of 53% of the brand’s lowest pay quartile is made up of women, whereas its top quartile consisted of 56.6% of women. Innocent Drinks UK employed more than 350 people in the UK in 2022.
Innocent’s 2022 mean gender bonus gap was 27.1%, down from 40.42% in 2021, and its median gender bonus gap was -1.1%, down significantly from 19.16% the prior year. A total of 92.8% of women and 90.2% of men received bonus pay last year.
Innocent employs more than 800 employees across Europe and Asia, and its 2022 mean hourly gender pay gap for this group was 4.2%, down from 8.67% in 2021. Its median hourly gender pay gap in Europe and Asia was -0.9%, down from 8.36% the prior year.
Meanwhile, its 2022 mean gender bonus gap outside the UK was 17.5%, down from 24.21% in 2021 and its median gap was -7.7%, down significantly from 18.79% the previous year. A total of 89.3% of women and 92.2% of men in Europe and Asia received bonus pay last year.
Sarah-Jane Norman, global HR director at Innocent Drinks, said: “Our pay gap exists because, although we employ more than 60% of women in our UK based jobs, we have slightly more men at the top. So we’ve been working to get gender balance across Innocent, especially at senior levels. We reduced the gap this year and increased the number of women in leadership roles by 6%. 23% of the women who work at Innocent are in leadership roles compared to 26% of the men.
“To help us keep bringing the pay gap down, we’ll continue to focus on creating progression and development plans for everyone at Innocent.”