Gender pay gap: Women paid average 33.8% less than men at Sony, Warner and Universal

The stats reveal differences in pay across the board

Sony. Credit: David Ramos/Getty Images (Sony. Credit: David Ramos/Getty Images)

Universal, Sony and Warner UK have released company figures that reveal the percentage difference of average hourly rates by gender.

On MBW, the numbers show the split between men and women across all levels of the label and the differences in bonuses given to each gender.

At all three major companies, male executives have the highest-paid jobs and earn the biggest bonuses, by far.

Across the board, the gender pay gap is significant, averaging 33.8 per cent overall, with 29.8 per cent at Universal, 22.7 per cent at Sony and 49 per cent at Warner.

With regards to bonuses female executives make 49.2 less at Universal, 45 per cent less at Sony and an extreme 82 per cent less at Warner.

Bonuses are about evenly distributed by gender at Universal and Sony, but there is 11 per cent less women get bonuses at Warner.

In comparison to the BBC wage gap difference of 10.7 per cent that caused outrage last October, the difference in pay by gender at major UK labels is much more alarming.

But the gender pay gap at the labels remains smaller than international bank HSBC, which was determined to have a 59 per cent difference.

The wage gap data has surfaced because of a UK law that "which stipulates that any company with more than 250 employees must reveal their gender pay gap stats by April 5."

The figures determined by these statistics were obtained by the UK government on April 5, 2017.

More companies in the UK will continue to have their figures publicly released.