58.3%in place
58.3% of organisations in the lumi HR community have ethnicity and disability pay gap readiness in place (base: 228 UK organisations, 2026 H1).
Figures describe organisations in the lumi HR community, not a random sample of UK employers.
How UK organisations answered
| Answer | Share of organisations |
|---|---|
| Not started | 41.7% |
| Reviewing data readiness | 31.6% |
| Analysing gaps | 20.2% |
| Reporting-ready | 6.6% |
Definition
Readiness for ethnicity and disability pay-gap reporting at 250+ employees. The Equality (Race and Disability) Bill is in draft and has no commencement date. See the methodology for how the base is built, how not-applicable answers are handled, the public floor, and which organisations are excluded.
Read more
- Pay gap reporting and action plans: UK benchmark 2026: the research paper this question is analysed in, with the full distribution, the legal context and what it means for reward decisions.
- Governance & transparency: research, guides and metrics: everything lumi publishes in this area.
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Last updated 19 September 2026 · Data licence: CC BY 4.0 for the figures in the CSV download.
Source: lumi HR, UK Reward Metrics, September 2026, lumihr.co.uk/metrics/ethnicity-and-disability-pay-gap-readinessLast updated 19 September 2026 · Data licence: CC BY 4.0 for the figures in the CSV download.
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