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Gender pay gap reporting and creating an action plan: guidance for employers

Guidance for employers on gender pay gap reporting, and creating an action plan to address your gender pay gap and support employees experiencing menopause.

• From: Office for Equality and Opportunity and Women and Equalities Unit
• Published: 7 April 2026

Any employer with 250 or more employees on a specific date each year (the ‘snapshot date’) must report their gender pay gap data within a year of that date.

You also have the option to produce and publish a voluntary action plan on the gender pay gap service, alongside your gender pay gap data. Subject to legislation, these will become mandatory from spring 2027.

Guidance for employers

• Gender pay gap reporting: guidance for employers
  • 7 April 2026
  • Statutory guidance
• Creating an action plan: guidance for employers
  • 7 April 2026
  • Guidance
• Action plans: list of actions
  • 4 March 2026
  • Collection

Published 7 April 2026