There are no plans to make States-owned organisations publish gender pay gap figures – despite some reporting differences of up to 25% between male and female employees.
Chief Minister Lyndon Farnham confirmed that there was “no legislative or regulatory requirement” for arms-length organisations to include the information in their annual reports.
“There are no current plans to introduce such requirements in legislation,” added Senator Farnham.
His comments came in response to a written question from Deputy Hilary Jeune, who asked how commitments made by the States Assembly in 2023 to encourage greater pay transparency were being upheld.
Figures taken from organisations’ annual reports show that Andium Homes reported a gender pay gap of 25% in 2025, down slightly from 26% in both 2023 and 2024.
The States of Jersey Development Company was also listed as having a 25% gap in mean monthly pay last year, compared with 30% in 2023 and 26% in 2024.
Ports of Jersey’s mean hourly gender pay gap fell from 19.6% in 2023 to 13.4% last year, while Jersey Telecom’s increased from 4.09% in 2024 to 6.02% in 2025.
Jersey Post reported a negative gender pay gap of 16% in 2025 – indicating that its gap was in favour of women.
This compared with 6.26% in favour of women in 2024 and a 2.1% gap in favour of men in 2023, however its reporting methodology changed in 2024 to include the wider business group.
The Jersey Overseas Aid Commission does not publish gender pay gap information because of its small workforce, as the figures could risk identifying individual employees or produce distorted results because of the limited dataset.
Jersey Post was meanwhile the only listed organisation that did not publish “income ratio” information showing the difference between its highest-paid employees and the wider workforce. No reason was given in the answer.
Among those that did report the figures, Ports of Jersey’s chief executive earned 11.3 times the salary of an employee at the 25th percentile in 2025. At Jersey Telecom, the equivalent ratio was 7.04.
The States Assembly agreed in 2023 that ministers should encourage relevant organisations to publish gender pay gap and income ratio data.
The Chief Minister said the government continued to encourage them to follow good-practice guidance from the Jersey Audit Office “as soon as practicable”.
