Gender Pay Gap

Wiltshire Police has recorded a 44% increase in the number of female police officers since 2019, according to its latest Gender Pay Gap Report 2024, published on 30 April 2025.

Since 2017, any public sector organisation with more than 250 employees must report, and publish, its figures about its gender pay gap annually. 

This is the eighth Wiltshire Police Gender Pay Gap Report since public sector reporting was made mandatory in 2017.

The report is a snapshot of Wiltshire Police on 31 March 2024. For the fourth year the Force continues to employ more female police officers and police staff combined than their male counterparts - 1,349 women and 1,19 men – totalling 2,548 employees overall. 

Median Gender Pay Gap for 2024

The report shows the percentage difference between the mean (average) and median (mid-point) hourly earnings of men and women in the workplace.  Men and women are paid equally at every grade in Wiltshire Police. However, if one gender dominates higher pay graded roles, this results in a gender pay gap. 

The median gender pay gap was 6.57% on 31 March 2024, a decrease from 7.60% in 2023.

2024 Report highlights

• The mean gender pay gap in 2024 was 6.62%, with a 0.69% decrease from 2023.
• A 44% increase in female police officers since the start of the Government’s Uplift recruitment programme in 2019, from 344 that year to 47 in March 2023.
• The Force continue to employ more women than men in officer and staff roles combined, with a ratio of 53:47 in favour of females.

Read our Gender Pay gap report 2024 here

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