Equal pay compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 45) | Tribunal Watch
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Equal pay employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
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Withdrawn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 Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate.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.
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.