03 September 2020
Official Information Request No. 8140007190
(Please quote this in any correspondence)
Geoff Brewer
By email – [FYI request #13420 email]
Dear Geoff
Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA) 1987
Re: gender pay gap
I refer to your email, which we received on 30 July 2020, requesting information about
salaries at Auckland Council, including any gender pay gap.
Your request was as follows:
I'm interested in the gender pay gap within Auckland Council. I would like to request (under
the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act) the distribution of salaries
disaggregated by pay band, department, ethnicity and gender. If the full distribution is
unavailable, please provide me the median and mean salary disaggregated by pay band,
department, ethnicity and gender.
We attach to this letter the following tables in one excel workbook:
1. Median and mean salary by pay band and gender
2. Median salary by pay band and ethnicity
3. Mean salary by pay band and ethnicity
4. Median and mean salary by department
We set out below some additional information that may assist in interpreting this information.
Please note, it is not possible for us to disaggregate the data by pay band, department,
ethnicity and gender together.
In all cases, if there are less than five employees in an ethnicity group, then we have not
included this information in the table to protect employees’ privacy. For this reason, we
combined Band K and above roles too.
Pay bands
Council operates a pay banding pay system. Each role is allocated to a pay band based on
the proprietary job evaluation system of Strategic Pay (SP10). The majority of roles at
Auckland Council fit within this pay banding system.
However, there are around 1000 roles at Council where dif ering pay systems are applied,
as dif erent arrangements have been negotiated with the respective union or a more
nuanced pay graduation scale is appropriate. These are shown in Tables 1 to 3 as “other”.
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Gender
Employees select their gender, and can identify as male, female, gender diverse, or can
select that they prefer not to say. Some employees chose not to make a selection. This data
pulls through into our payroll system which is binary only, and employees are either “male”
or “female and other”. Therefore, the “female and other” category includes those who have
selected gender diverse, that they prefer not to say, or who have not selected an option.
Ethnicity
The ethnicity data is based on an employee’s primary ethnic group. Some employees
identify with more than one ethnicity, but we have provided the data in tables 2 and 3 based
on their primary ethnicity.
The decision by Auckland Council to release the information contained in this response was
made by Patricia Reade, Director of People and Performance.
Should you believe Auckland Council has not responded appropriately to your request, you
have the right by way of complaint, under section 27(3) of the LGOIMA, to apply to the
Ombudsman to seek an investigation and review of the decision.
If you have any further queries please contact me on 09 301 0101 quoting Of icial
Information Request No. 8140007190.
Yours sincerely
Sarah Parry-Crooke
Senior Privacy & LGOIMA Business Partner
Democracy Services
Private Bag 92300, Auckland 1142 |
aucklandcouncil.govt.nz |
Ph 09 301 0101