The UK Government requires all legal entities with 250 or more employees to annually disclose their gender pay gap. The gender pay gap is not the same thing as equal pay. Equal pay relates to men and women performing the same job but being paid differently, whereas the gender pay gap looks across all jobs at all levels within an organisation. Companies are required to disclose the median gender pay gap, and the mean gender pay gap, based on an annual “snapshot” of the employee population on 5 April.

Across Moonpig.com we have made progress in reducing the mean gender pay gap by 0.3%pts, with Moonpig Group maintaining its FY22 position, however we have seen an increase in the median by 1.7%pts at Moonpig.com whilst the median across the Group has decreased by 3.2%pts.

The gender pay gap at 5 April 2023 is largely due to relative under representation of women in our technology function (which reflects the wider societal challenge of female under-representation in technical roles), together with the current gender composition of the Executive Committee. Whilst we have seen an increase in females in the upper pay quartile and a decrease in females in the lower pay quartile, the number of males in the upper middle quartile has also increased.

Our long-term aim is to close the Group’s gender pay gap, through systemic action to balance gender representation across our business, as set out in ESG Goal 4 (leadership representation of women) and Goal 7 (female new hires into technology roles), however the impacts of these actions will take time to be fully realised.

Substantially all Moonpig Group employees participate in an annual bonus scheme (which will be extended to Experiences for FY24), with payments made in July. The figures for the proportion of employees receiving a bonus (including the differences between male and female employees) reflect the fact that as at the snapshot date, employees hired during FY23 had not yet had their first annual bonus payment opportunity. This is especially the case during a period when the Group has expanded its number of employees.

The Gender Pay Gap report as at 5 April 2023, both for Moonpig.com Limited and for Moonpig Group as a whole, is set out on page 49 of Moonpig Group’s 2023 Annual Report and Accounts, which is hereby incorporated into this website by reference.

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I hereby confirm that the information set out in the Gender Pay Gap report as at 5 April 2023 is accurate.

Nickyl Raithatha
Chief Executive Officer, Moonpig Group