Gender Pay Gap

At Sinclair Group, we are committed to creating a workplace where every colleague has the opportunity to thrive, develop, and progress. As Wales largest automotive retail group, we recognise the responsibility we hold in shaping a more inclusive and representative sector — one that reflects the customers and communities we serve.

The automotive retail and dealership environment has historically faced challenges in achieving gender balance, particularly within technical, sales, and senior leadership roles. These roles are critical to our business and are traditionally male‑dominated across the wider industry. Our Gender Pay Gap results reflect this structural pattern, with a higher proportion of men occupying positions in the upper pay quartiles. While this is consistent with national trends in the automotive sector, it is not something we accept as inevitable.

We are committed to long‑term, meaningful change. Over recent years, we have taken steps to broaden access to development opportunities and strengthen our recruitment practices. We continue to invest in leadership development, targeted to women to encourage progression into more senior or higher paid roles. 

Reducing the gender pay gap is not a quick fix — it requires sustained focus, cultural change, and a commitment to challenging long‑standing industry norms. Sinclair Group remains fully dedicated to this journey. We will continue to review our progress, listen to our colleagues, and take action to ensure that our organisation is a place where talent is recognised, supported, and rewarded fairly.

In addition to the required pay gap calculations, we monitor equal pay closely and are satisfied that where both genders exist in the same job they are paid equally.

We also monitor staff satisfaction through annual confidential surveys and are always pleased to see that engagement and satisfactions scores are in fact higher in our females than males.

As an industry the Motor Trade workforce has a 19% female representation, our figure is 25%, this remains constant despite our desire and effort to improve.

This report outlines our results on Gender Pay Gap as outlined in the legislation, the calculations have been done on people employed on a snapshot date of April 2025.

The information below relates to the total employees in the Sinclair Group.

The Mean Pay Gap shows the percentage difference in average pay between males and females when you look at hourly rate plus bonus pay

The Median Pay Gap is the midpoint between the highest and lowest paid again showing the percentage difference males and females.

I confirm that the data presented in this report is accurate and has been prepared in accordance with the statutory requirements.

This report for the Sinclair Group represents data for the employees of the following companies :

Sinclair Motor Holdings Ltd

Sinclair TPS Ltd

Sinclair Garages Ltd

Sinclair Garages (Swansea) Ltd

Sinclair Garages (Port Talbot) Ltd

Sinclair Garages (Bridgend) Ltd

Sinclair Garages (Cardiff) Ltd

Sinclair Garages (Newport) Ltd

Sinclair Finance and Leasing Ltd