Caribbean employees experience the largest ethnicity pay gap compared to their colleagues, analysis has shown.
The research, published by Business in the Community (BITC) to mark Windrush Day today (22 June), shows that UK employees from a Caribbean background who are working in a professional occupation earn on average 3,814 less than their other colleagues.
It also reveals that more than half (55 per cent) of Caribbean employees feel they are underpaid for what they do, despite the majority (72 per cent) having a diploma, degree, master’s or PhD.
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Caribbean employees are also underrepresented in senior, higher-paid roles including professional, higher technical and higher management levels, the research found.
For this reason, more than a third (34 per cent) of the surveyed employees said they would like a mentor to help them try and overcome the existing barriers, while only 14 per cent already have a mentor.
The analysis was conducted by Queen Mary’s Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity and Birmingham Business School’s Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business, and was based on BITC’s Race at Work surveys from 2015, 2018 and 2021.
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