Giant receipt shows Britain’s £3.2bn ethnicity pay gap

By James Herring on Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Britain’s got a tab to settle — and People Like Us just handed it over in the form of a supersized OOH receipt.

Created with indie shop Worth Your While, the stunt lands alongside a “Receipt Generator” built with Planes Studio, letting anyone print their own personalised bill for lost earnings caused by the ethnicity pay gap.

The campaign, Britain’s Ethnicity Bill, comes after Resolution Foundation data revealed Black, Asian and ethnic minority workers are collectively short-changed £3.2bn a year — compared to white colleagues doing the same role.

With 70% of UK workers backing mandatory reporting, the push is aimed squarely at pressuring the government to pass the long-delayed Equality (Race and Disability) Bill.

The two-week London OOH drop is part of a run of policy-shaping work from People Like Us and Worth Your While.

Last year’s #NameTheBias film with spoken word artist Yasmin Ali scored a Cannes Lions, while 2023’s Autocorrected Pay Gap cleverly exposed workplace discrimination via a hacked autocorrect tool.

“Every day that reporting isn’t mandatory is another day of injustice,” said Tim Pashen, Worth Your While’s creative director. “This is one bill the UK can’t afford to delay.”

Sheeraz Gulsher, co-founder of non-profit People Like Us, commented: “This research confirms what we’ve known for years – that people are tired of inequality being brushed under the carpet. The public overwhelmingly backs mandatory pay gap reporting because transparency breeds trust, fairness, and progress. Reporting is not a silver bullet, but it’s the bare minimum.”