Live Recruitment has released its 2025 Diversity Report, which gives an overall insight into the diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) of the UK Events Industry.
This report provides a valuable snapshot of DEI within the UK events industry, the largest of its kind in the history of the sector, allowing businesses to benchmark themselves both against the wider sector and their specific niche within it.
The report also breaks down the diversity in different sectors of the events industry, from associations, event supplier sector and the event, production and experiential agencies sector.
So how diverse is the event, production and experiential agencies sector?
Gender:
The data shows that the event, production and experiential agencies sector is predominately female (67.3%), whilst only 32.7% of the sector is male.
Despite this, the average salary of the male group in the sector is significantly higher than the average salary of the female group. The average salary for the male group is £46,414, whilst the average salary for females in the sector is £40, 256.
In terms of seniority, the data shows that in all 3 seniority levels (junior, middle and senior), the percentage of the female group is higher than the male group. However, the percentage of the male group increases as the seniority increases.
Ethnicity:
The data shows that the white/caucasian group makes up nearly 80% of the workforce in this
sector, with the ethnically diverse group only accounting for 20.3% of the sector.
The data also shows that the average salary for the white/caucasian group is higher by
approximately £3,500 than the salary for the ethnically diverse groups, which is on aerage only £39,688.
If you also break this down by gender, the data shows the average salary disparity between the white/caucasian female group and the female ethnically diverse groups is over £2,500.
Age:
The data shows that the 32-45 age bracket is the largest group, accounting for over half of the total
workforce for this sector. This is the same across both male and female groups.
Only 24.9% of the sector is made up of the age group 18-31 and this shrinks further when looking at the age group 46-59, which makes up only 13.7%.
The 60+ age group only makes up 1.9% of the sectors workforce. However, the percentage of 60+ event professionals in the male group is nearly 3 times higher than the 60+ female group.
The read the full report click here.
Graph credit: Live Recruitement Diversity Report
