Equality duties: pay gap report 2026

Introduction

The Equality Act 2010 sets out certain specific duties for public authorities. For the Scottish Government as an employer this includes a duty to publish:

• gender pay gap information every two years, and
• an equal pay and occupational segregation statement every four years

Although the specific public sector equality duties only requires us to report on gender pay gap information, we also publish pay gap information for ethnicity and disability.

We previously included this information in our Equality Mainstreaming report. Last year, we began publishing this information as a standalone report and made a commitment to publish this information every year instead of every two years.

Therefore this report is published voluntarily and does not have the status of being a statutory report. We publish this report more often than the law requires to gives extra transparency about pay gaps in our workforce.