Top 4 Free or Affordable Online or Downloadable Gender Pay Gap Calculator Software Tools
Since April 2018, businesses with more than 250 employees are required to report on their gender pay gap to the government and publish it on their website. Calculating, tracking and monitoring your gender pay gap can can be quite an onerous task for small businesses and we would recommend that you use a gender pay gap calculator to streamline this task.
Below you can find our top 4 free or affordable gender pay gap calculators.
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1.StaffTRAK Gender pay Gap Calculator. Developed by the team here at thecareercafe.co.uk, the StaffTRAK Gender Pay Gap Calculator is a downloadable, excel, based app. Being desk-top based rather than cloud-based, makes it GDPR friendly, reducing the risk of a data breach. This is a user-friendly system that will automatically perform your gender pay gap calculations and produce tabular and graphical reports, streamlining your process. You just need to import your data into the file and it will do the rest. Click here to try it.
2.Close Your Pay Gap. This is a cloud-based gender pay gap analysis tool that performs your gender pay gap analysis once you upload your data to their cloud based system. If you have reported already the system can automatically import your data from the government’s gender pay gap viewing service. If you don’t want to upload/import your data to their system at all you can still use their initial assessment questions, (that don’t require you to input your pay data), and it will deliver an action plan to reduce your gender pay gap, but it won’t be tailored to suit your organisation.
3.Gapsquare. This is another cloud-based gender pay gap analysis tool. Just upload your HR and payroll data and the system will provide you with a detailed reports and graphs into your gender pay gap. Assuming you upload the data it can reveal gaps across department, demographic, locations and more.
4.Dezeen Gender Pay Gap Calculator. This is very light weight gender pay calculator that performs a headline analysis of your gender pay gap, just using headline figures. It is just intended as a conversation starter and quick ready reckoner and they admit that you need to use more sophisticated methods to properly assess and tackle pay inequality in organizations.
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Infographic: Women Think They Can’t Reach Full Potential As Employees
For more information on the gender pay gap, take a look at the infographic below, delivering some figures on the gender pay gap in the self-employed sector, which has been prepared by Freshbooks. Key highlights are that 52% of women feel that they can’t reach their full potential as employees, with 63% thinking they’ll get fairer treatment if they work for themselves.
