Dovida Gender Pay Gap Report 2024

Our mission

At Dovida, our mission is to support, empower and uplift people, by putting them at the heart of everything we do.

To do this, we employ a team of over 4,000 people across Ireland who live and breathe our core values of dignity and respect for the clients we serve and each other. Central to our mission is our 3,600-strong team of dedicated and compassionate caregivers who offer a premium, personal service from the first call right through the Care Journey.

Our caregivers are the lifeblood of our organisation, and we are committed to providing them with the support and encouragement they need to continually grow and develop in their roles and provide them with the environment and tools they need to continually build value in our service to others.

What’s covered

As part of legislation introduced by the Irish Government in 2021, organisations are required to report on their hourly gender pay gap across a range of metrics. These include the median and mean hourly pay gap for both full- and part-time employees, the number of men and women to whom bonuses are paid and the mean and median bonus paid to each group.

We are also required to organise our employees into quartiles based on hourly rates of pay and calculate the proportions of men and women in each in quartile.

To calculate our results, we must take a snapshot of our organisation in June and publish the results no later than six months after the snapshot date. This year’s snapshot date was June 30.

Our results

In June 2024, Dovida employed a total of 4,152 people across Ireland. Of those, 3,603 were female, and 547 were male.

We are pleased to report a mean gender pay gap of 1.66% and a median gap of 0.87% for full-time employees.

For part-time employees, the gap is smaller still, with the mean 0.09% and the median at 0.85%.

Below, you can see how our employees fit into each quartile.

With regards to bonuses, a total of 198 females (5.5%) and 29 males (5.3%) were paid bonuses. The mean bonus gap stands at 11.5%. However, we are very pleased that there is no median bonus gap (0.0%).

Closing the gap

While our gender pay gap is relatively small, we are an organisation whose workforce is overwhelmingly female, and we are striving to ensure that what gap remains is closed as soon as possible.

This means being a person-centred employer as well as a provider. We have a network of 25 offices around Ireland, covering every city, town and village in the country, enabling our staff to turn their passion for care into a career wherever they live. Flexible schedules allow our caregivers to fit work around their personal commitments.

Our professional culture is derived from years of experience in implementing the highest standards of care. We give our caregivers additional rewards based on qualifications and length of service, our Home Care Professionals Academy provides them with the tools they need to do the job, and we offer clear pathways to career progression.

Thanks to this culture of support, as well as our core values, our staff feel a great sense of belonging; they know that they are part of a caring, compassionate and winning team who make a difference to the lives of ageing adults every day.