London — EasyJet’s newly hired CEO is taking a pay cut to match the
salary of his predecessor, Carolyn McCall, as the discount airline joins
UK-wide efforts to reduce the national gender gap in remuneration.
Johan Lundgren’s salary, originally set at £740,000,
will be
reduced 4.6% to the £706,000 earned by McCall last year, before
she left to run UK broadcaster ITV, the carrier said in a statement on
Monday. EasyJet will also seek to beat a target of ensuring that 20% of
new pilots are women by 2020, Lundgren said.
UK government data show that men out-earn women at every level across
industries, with the gap widest in skilled trades, according to figures
released this month.
EasyJet came under fire after it said there was a
51.7% difference between men and women, driven by the gender imbalance
among its pilots, its highest-paid position. Only 5% of the carrier’s
flight-deck crew are women, though that proportion is higher than the
industry average of 4%, the company said.
"At EasyJet we are absolutely committed to giving equal pay and equal
opportunity for women and men," Lundgren said in Monday’s statement. "I
also want to affirm my own commitment to address the gender imbalance
in our pilot community which drives our overall gender pay gap."
Bloomberg
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