Gender Pay Gap Report
Last updated 11-06-2026
Why we are publishing this
Gender pay gap reporting measures the difference in average pay between women and men across an organisation. It is not the same as equal pay. Equal pay is the legal requirement that women and men doing equivalent work are paid the same. A gender pay gap can exist even where equal pay is fully honoured, because the gap reflects how women and men are distributed across roles and seniority, not whether any individual is underpaid.
In the UK, statutory gender pay gap reporting applies to employers with 250 or more employees. Muse is in early access and is built by a team of four, so no law requires us to publish anything. We are doing it anyway. Muse is a fashion and beauty companion built mostly by women, and we believe transparency about who builds it and how pay works should start now, not when we reach the 250 mark.
The snapshot
As of 11-06-2026, the Muse team is four people:
- 3 women, 75 per cent of the team
- 1 man, 25 per cent of the team
Why we are not publishing gap percentages
Statutory reports include a mean and median hourly pay gap, pay quartiles and bonus gap figures. With a team of four, those numbers would not tell you anything real. One new joiner or one pay change would swing the percentages wildly from one report to the next. Worse, publishing them would effectively disclose what individual people earn, which would not be fair to anyone on a team this small.
So instead of figures that look precise but mean nothing, this report gives you what we can say honestly at this size: who the team is, and how pay decisions are made.
Our commitments
- Equal pay for equivalent work, always. People doing the same work are paid the same, regardless of gender or anything else about them.
- Pay is set by the role, not the person. We decide what a role is worth before we know who will fill it, and we do not negotiate different outcomes for different people doing the same job.
- This report grows up with the team. As Muse grows, we will publish fuller figures as soon as they are statistically meaningful and can no longer identify individuals, well before any legal threshold requires it.
Questions
If you would like to ask us anything about this report, write to hello@musefashion.me and a person on the team will reply.