Marketing’s ethnicity pay gap at highest level since 2022
Exclusive 2025 Career & Salary Survey data reveals an ethnicity pay gap of 13.3%, up sharply on 2024 levels.
As brands worldwide cut diversity, equity and inclusion programmes, questions are being asked about whether the marketing industry is doing enough to attract and retain ethnically diverse talent.
Marketing Week’s exclusive 2025 Career & Salary Survey has uncovered an ethnicity pay gap for full-time workers of 13.3%, up sharply from 8.5% in 2024.
Some 82.9% of the total sample identify as white, up from 77.9% of respondents to the 2024 survey. Some 81.7% of residents in England and Wales identified as white in the 2021 Census published by the Office of National Statistics, putting the Career & Salary Survey sample slightly above the national average.
