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<p>For clergy across the Church of England, as officeholders they are paid a stipend
rather than a salary. All bishops, male and female, receive the same stipend. All
other clergy stipends are based on a national benchmark which is set by post, irrespective
of the gender of the postholder.</p><p>The Church of England last measured its clergy
gender pay gap on 1<sup>st</sup> April 2022. Across the 42 dioceses of the Church,
the difference in average stipend for male and female full-time stipendiary clergy
was 0.3% in favour of men (with the mean stipend for male clergy being £28,288 and
for female clergy £28,205). The gap has been calculated for full-time stipendiary
clergy alone. As clergy do not work standard hours there is a difficultly in calculating
an hourly rate for clergy, which is the standard method for calculating gender pay
gaps. There are also difficulties in standardising part-time clergy in terms of full
time equivalents, as we do not have complete information about the proportion of a
full-time post. This is unlikely to affect the overall figure significantly as only
8% of stipendiary clergy were part-time (less than 1 full-time equivalent) and women
made up only a small majority of part-time stipendiary clergy (54% compared with 46%
men).</p><p>The most recent Gender Pay Report from the National Church Institutions
(NCIs) can be found here: <a href="https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/national-church-institutions-2022-gender-pay-report-april-2023_0.pdf"
target="_blank">national-church-institutions-2022-gender-pay-report-april-2023_0.pdf
(churchofengland.org)</a>. 57% of the staff of the National Church Institutions (NCIs)
are women. Since 2021 the representation of women has increased by 2% in the upper
quartile, but the majority of women continue to be working in roles in the lower and
mid-lower quartile. As the NCIs approached their pay negotiations in late 2022 and
they considered the cost-of-living crisis effects on employees and affordability for
the NCI charities, a focus was maintained on NCI values and on gender and ethnicity
pay gaps.</p><p> </p>
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