How much compensation do equal pay claims award at an employment tribunal?

Across 33 UK equal pay tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £7,060 and the largest was £48,500.

What percentage of equal pay claims succeed at an employment tribunal?

Of 196 equal pay claims decided on the merits by UK tribunals, 17% were upheld.

How many UK equal pay employment tribunal cases are there?

Tribunal Watch has indexed 2,206 equal pay employment tribunal judgments published on gov.uk since 2017.

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Equal pay employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present

Name: Equal pay UK employment tribunal statistics
Creator: Tribunal Watch
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Tribunal Watch has indexed 2,206 UK employment tribunal cases involving equal pay claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £7,060 (the largest £48,500) across 33 cases. Tribunals upheld 17% of the 196 decided equal pay claims. These cases name 668 distinct employers as respondents.

Total cases: 2,206
Median award: £7,060
Claims upheld: 17%
Largest single award: £48,500
Distinct employers: 668
England & Wales: 580
Scotland: 1,626

Compensation in equal pay cases

33 cases with a recorded award

Median: £7,060
Mean: £12,987
25th percentile: £1,294
75th percentile: £21,638
90th percentile: £30,596
Largest: £48,500

Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a equal pay claim and a published remedy — 33 of 2,206 equal pay cases. Many tribunal judgments decide liability only, with compensation set at a later hearing, so they are not counted here. A judgment combining several claim types contributes its whole award. Nothing here is legal advice or a prediction of any individual outcome.

Outcomes of equal pay claims

1,447 adjudicated claims

Outcome	Claims	Share
Struck out	751	52%
Withdrawn	451	31%
Dismissed	163	11%
Other	42	3%
Upheld	33	2%
Settled	7	0%

Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 17% of equal pay claims were upheld — 33 of 196. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.

Equal pay cases per year

2017–2026

Year	Cases	Trend
2017	322
2018	106
2019	325
2020	231
2021	168
2022	224
2023	309
2024	168
2025	327
2026	26

Largest equal pay awards

Top 8 by total award

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Total award
2207626/2022	7 March 2024	Mr M Todd, counsel For the	Mr R Katz, Litigation Consultant	£48,500
1601484/2021	2 July 2024	D	R1 and others	£47,247
1401523/2018	4 March 2025	1. Helen Cherry 2. Amanda Cox 3. Alison Milton	Next Retail Limited	£39,961
3200643/2023	20 October 2025	Dr Eliane Bodanese	Queen Mary University London	£30,725
1800008/2023	22 December 2023	Ms Kathy Wright	Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council Heard by Teams: Remote Video Link	£30,080
1306243/2023	7 February 2025	Anna Munkevics	Echo Personnel Ltd	£25,110
1602107/2023	27 August 2024	Mr A Cridge	The Christmas Decorators (Franchising) Ltd	£25,000
1403135/2022	23 May 2023	In person, assisted by Mr Peacock, Friend For the	Mr P Oldham of His Majesty’s Counsel

Top employers — equal pay cases

20 ranked by case count

#	Employer	Cases
01	North Lanarkshire Council	346
02	Glasgow City Council	317
03	Represented by: Thompsons West Dunbartonshire Council	127
04	West Dunbartonshire Council	55
05	Cordia Services LLP Glasgow City Council	52
06	Represented by: Thompsons Solicitors West Dunbartonshire Council	47
07	South Lanarkshire Council	45
08	Glasgow City Council Cordia (Services) LLP	41
09	Sunderland City Council	35
10	The City of Edinburgh Council	23
11	Represented by: Thompsons South Lanarkshire Council	22
12	Cordia Services LLP

All equal pay cases

2,206 cases · page 29 of 45 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
4103656/2019	17 February 2020	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4103656/2019 & 4103657/2019 Mrs A Fraser	South Lanarkshire Council	Scotland	—
1802483/2019	14 February 2020	Ms S Coleman	Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc Safeway Stores Limited	England & Wales	—
1802582/2019	14 February 2020	Ms A Riddell	Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc Safeway Stores Limited	England & Wales	—
4102871/2014	11 February 2020	Ms I Robertson	North Ayrshire Council	Scotland	—
1301996/2019	11 February 2020	—	Birmingham City Council	England & Wales	—
4104164/2012	11 February 2020	Ms MT McIntosh	North Ayrshire Council	Scotland	—
1304659/2014	10 February 2020	Ms. K Forrest – 1304659/2014 Ms T Minor – 1302965/2015 Ms. S Islam – 1303083/2016	Birmingham City Council	England & Wales	—

Methodology

Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the equal pay caseload if equal payis tagged in its classification output. A single judgment frequently combines multiple claim types, so the same case may appear on more than one claim-type page. Per-claim outcomes come from the second-pass (LLM-assisted) extraction and are recorded for each claim a judgment decides; the success rate counts only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed). Award figures are taken from the remedy section of each judgment where present; cases without a quantified award — because the tribunal only determined liability, or because the remedy hearing is pending — are excluded from the compensation figures. Regional splits follow the tribunal's jurisdiction as recorded on gov.uk. Nothing on this page is legal advice or a prediction of any outcome; for any specific matter the gov.uk judgment PDF linked from each case page is the authoritative source.