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Goals. The purpose of the study was to find out how ethically sensitive teachers, teacher students and financial people themselves are evaluating and whether there are differences between these groups in ethical sensitivity. The study also investigated whether differences between the sexes exist in ethical sensitivity. The theoretical background of this study is the theory of four components of ethical activity, of which ethical sensitivity is studied in this work. After Darcia Narvaez's (2001) operative concept of ethical sensitivity in seven different areas, Kirsi Tirri and Petri Nokelainen (2007, 2011) have developed a meter of ethical sensitivity in their own research. Methods. The survey was carried out as a quantitative survey and the relevant material from bank employees was collected by e-form in August 2015 from a banking group operating in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. There were 183 respondents, of whom 77.6% were women (N = 142) and men 22.4% (N = 41). Reference material from the teachers was obtained from the University of Helsinki research group (Kuusisto Elina, Tirri Kirsi). The total number of respondents was 864, of which 60.4% (N = 522) were teachers and 39.6% (N = 342) teacher students, women 77.2% (N = 667) and men 22.8% (197). The material was collected in 2011. All students were at the beginning of their studies at the material collection stage and studied at the University of Helsinki. Subsequently, the material was combined with the SPSS statistics program. The ethical sensitivity scale questionnaire consisted of 28 claims, which were answered in the 5-step Likert scale. Seven sum variables were formed, each of which was counted as Cronbach alpha. Only the sum of single sum variables alpha (ESSQ_1 α = .544) was below the recommended>. 060. Subsequent intergroup averages were examined by variance analysis and differences between genders by t-test. Results and conclusions. Teachers received the highest average of seven in four areas, with the results being statistically significant as well. Bank employees received the highest averages in two areas, although the results were not statistically significant. The students got the highest average in only one area. In this study, however, the best ethical sensitivity variable was gender, with women having a higher average in six of the seven areas.