Promoting equality and diversity in its professional activities

Murray Hills is committed to promoting equality and diversity in its professional activities with clients, personnel and all other third parties that have dealings with the firm. As part of our Equality and Diversity policy and in compliance with our regulatory obligations, we monitor this by conducting surveys and analysing the data to demonstrate its effectiveness and highlight any areas for further development.

May 2025.

Surveys conducted

The below summary provides the data aggregated from our surveys conducted in 2025 and is accurate as at 23rd May 2025.

Our workforce diversity data is published on a combined basis for the whole firm to mitigate the risk of identification of individuals:-

Age breakdown:

  • 16-24 years – 4%
  • 25-34 years – 27%
  • 35-44 years – 32%
  • 45-54 years – 5%  
  • 55-64 years – 27%
  • 65+ years – 5%

Gender


The gender spilt of our staff is 82% female and 18% male.

Disability

4% of our staff have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2012.

Ethnicity

4% of our current staff are Asian and 96% are white British.

Socio-economic background:

74% of our staff attended UK state schools, 22% of our staff attended UK faith selective state schools. If members of our staff went to University then 86% were in the first generation of their family to do so, 9% were not the first generation of their family to do so.

Caring Responsibilities:

43% of our staff care for at least one child under the age of 18 years and 13% of our staff care for someone with long term physical or mental ill heath caused by disability or age for up to 19 hours a week.