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Great Places’ approach to pay
Great Places is an accredited Living Wage Employer. In 2025/26 we paid the Real Living Wage to all colleagues, and paid our apprentices above the National Minimum Apprentice rates.
We’re accredited with
- Stonewall Diversity Champion
- Member of The 5% Club
- Race Equality Matters
- Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter
- Disability Confident Employer
CEO worker pay ratio
- CEO: median average pay ratio – 6.1:1 (2024/25: 6.28:1)
This means that the CEO earns 6.1 times the median salary in the business
Gender pay gap
The latest figures reported to Government at the time of publishing this ESG report are:
- UK gender pay gap (ONS 2025): 6.9%
- We employ 1,038 people, 48.% are female and 52% are male.
- Great Places Housing Group's gender pay gap (mean is) -2.24% (2024/25: 0.85%)
Ethnicity pay gap
- Median: 15.26% (2024/25: 17%)
- Mean: 15.35% (2024/25: 17.05%)
- We employ 1,038 people, 79% identify as white, 15% as multicultural and 6% did not declare their ethnicity.
Disability pay gap
- Median: 1.32% (2024/25: 15%)
- Mean: 7.48% (2024/25: 15.39%)
