PR’s pay gaps, and how to close them, are the focus of the latest episode of PRWeek’s Beyond the Noise podcast.

This week has seen the launch of the 2024 Pay Gaps Report from PRWeek and People Like Us, which sees UK PR agencies reveal their own gender and ethnicity pay gaps alongside analysis of the big trends.

To discuss the findings are Sheeraz Gulsher, co-founder of People Like Us; Jo Carr, co-founder of PR agency Hope&Glory and president of Women in PR; and Paul Joseph, partner at PR agency Full Fat.

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Speaking to PRWeek UK editor John Harrington, our guests disect the big themes from the Pay Gaps Report and talk about progress in pay parity across the industry more generally.

They discuss their disappointment at the continued lack of participation from the UK’s biggest agencies.

Carr and Joseph speak about steps taken at their agencies to close pay gaps.

The guests put the findings in the context of the comms market more generally and discuss whether Labour’s plans for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting for larger firms may change the project in the future.

Finally, the trio each give their top tip for closing PR’s pay gaps.

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