Entain has reduced its median hourly gender pay gap for 2021 from 7.1% to 5.3%, a figure that it noted was just over a third of the UK’s national average.

While the gap in median salaries was 5.3%, the mean hourly pay gap was much more significant, at 16.2%, which was up from 15.0% in 2020.

This was mostly due to lower representation of women in roles that made up the upper quartile of salaries at Entain. While the majority of Entain staff in the lower quartile and two middle quartiles of pay are women, only 39.1% from the upper quartile were women in 2021. That figure was down slightly from 2020.