UK pay report
Welcome to our UK Pay Report for 2024.
At Gowling WLG we firmly believe that diversity and inclusion makes us a stronger business – more relevant and valuable to our clients, more empowering for our people, and more engaged with our wider communities.
We celebrate different cultures, backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and support the UK Government's focus on pay gap transparency to highlight areas of potential unfairness. Since 2018, our reporting has gone beyond statutory requirements, setting out our ethnicity pay gap, sexual orientation pay gap position and including our Partner population.
The pay gaps highlighted in this report stem from the structure of our workforce, which spans a diverse range of roles and is rooted in two distinct pay markets in the UK (London and Birmingham). In recent years, trends in the legal market have amplified the structural imbalance in our reported gender pay gap through higher market-driven salary increases for our Lawyer positions compared to our non-Lawyer roles. This has stabilised in the last reporting period with gaps broadly similar to last year.
We remain fully committed to a workplace in which everyone is supported to develop and progress to the best of their abilities, not only in the UK but across all of our offices globally, and to achieve their full career (and pay) potential. That is one reason why we undertake an annual independent engagement survey and audit of our HR practices resulting in our accreditation as a Great Place to Work, an accreditation we've now held for 25 years.
Importantly, we are confident that our robust annual assurance processes ensure we offer equal pay for equal roles and performance. We are also proud to be an accredited "living wage employer" in the UK, going beyond our statutory obligations and paying at least the "real living wage" to all our employees, including apprentices.
We are pleased to share in this report a snapshot of our recent activities and investments to bring this to life - and promote fairness, inclusion and equality across all parts of our organisation.
I confirm that the data reported is accurate.
David Fennell
Chief Executive, Gowling WLG (UK) LLP
31 March 2025
Download Gowling WLG's UK pay reporting 2024
Past reports
Gowling WLG's UK pay reporting 2023
Gowling WLG's UK pay reporting 2022
Gowling WLG's UK pay reporting 2021
Gowling WLG's UK pay reporting 2020
Gowling WLG's UK pay reporting 2019