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North West landlord reveals ethnicity and gender pay gap results
A tenant and employee-owned mutual housing society has revealed that its female and Black, Asian and minority ethnic employees earn more than their counterparts on average.
Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) has published its latest gender pay gap figures, which show a gap of -6.5%, and has for the first time published its ethnicity pay gap figures, which show a gap of -4%.
This means that on average for every £1 earned by RBH’s male employees its female employees earn an average of £1.065.
Meanwhile for every £1 that RBH’s white employees earn, its Black, Asian and minority ethnic employees earn an average of £1.04.
Gareth Swarbrick, chief executive at RBH, said he is “proud that there is no glass ceiling” at the organisation.
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The chair of the board, the chair of the elected representative body and 75% of RBH’s executive leadership and senior leadership teams are women.
Mr Swarbrick said RBH is “also continuing to take steps to break down gender barriers across teams that have been traditionally occupied by a single gender – from encouraging more women to join our repairs team to recruiting men into our independent living service”.
He added: “I know that there is still more to do to make sure that RBH is a truly inclusive organisation. Just under 10% of our employees identify as BAME, which is a lower percentage than the demographic profile of Rochdale Borough as a whole.
“BAME colleagues work at all levels within the organisation – including representing a quarter of both our executive leadership team and over 20% of our senior leadership team.”
RBH was originally an ALMO set up to manage the homes owned by Rochdale Council.
In 2012 the ALMO was converted into the UK’s first tenant and employee co-owned mutual housing society. It currently manages around 12,000 homes.
The figures are released as Inside Housing launches a new series on racism in housing following the creation of its race and housing editorial panel last year.
