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posted by cmn32480 on Friday August 05 2016, @04:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the they-are-just-holding-the-numbers-wrong dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Apple is the latest tech company to close its pay gap.

Women and minorities at Apple earn the same amount of money as their white, male co-workers in similar roles, the company said Wednesday.

Apple released its annual inclusion and diversity report, saying the company had achieved pay equity.

"Women earn one dollar for every dollar male employees earn. And underrepresented minorities earn one dollar for every dollar white employees earn," the report said. To put things in perspective, the White House says that in the US, women earn 78 cents to the dollar.

The pay gap is one of many issues related to diversity that companies in the tech industry face. Silicon Valley has had to confront tough questions about the treatment of women and minorities in tech, and the industry continues to struggle with issues surrounding recruitment, retention and promotion.

Apple isn't the first tech company to say it's reached equal pay. In April, Facebook and Microsoft also said they had no gender pay gap.

Apple's latest report shows that in 2016, 72 percent of the company's leadership is male, while only 28 percent is female. Whites make up 67 percent, Asians 21 percent, blacks 3 percent, Hispanics 7 percent, and 1 percent in leadership roles are multiracial. The balance is made up of other ethnicities and employees who didn't declare.

Apple's report also shows that overall, the company is 68 percent male and 32 percent female this year -- a move of one percentage point from last year when Apple reported 69 percent male and 31 percent female. Fifty-six percent of US employees at Apple are white, 19 percent are Asian, 9 percent are black, 12 percent are Hispanic and 2 percent are multiracial ethnicities.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 05 2016, @05:56PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday August 05 2016, @05:56PM (#384577) Journal

    The 'pay gap' is the result of a grade school level math error. It is simply averaging 'all' women, no mater of age, educational status, marital status, or profession. Vs 'all' men no mater of age, educational status, marital status, or profession.
     
    On a national level, perhaps.
     
    However, in this case we're talking about a single company who knows exactly what job duties and what job experience each individual has and how much they are paid. Just hand-waving away any inconsistencies is a bit harder...

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by julian on Friday August 05 2016, @07:43PM

    by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 05 2016, @07:43PM (#384603)

    In the case of Apple I am flatly rejecting that there was any "problem" to begin with. There was merely the perception of a problem due to the error GP explained. Apple--as a trendy forward-looking company--felt the need to virtue signal to appeal to one of their target demos.

    Now, an "image problem" is a real problem for a company, especially a company like Apple that cares a lot about its image. Even if there was no "pay gap" it might benefit them to take visible steps to correct it so that they can appear more progressive. Perception matters even if it doesn't perfectly track with reality, especially at the level Apple plays the marketing game.

  • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday August 05 2016, @09:35PM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Friday August 05 2016, @09:35PM (#384635) Homepage Journal

    So now you can get paid less than your colleague for not being good at negotiation AND ALSO not being a woman.

    Hey hey - when you introduce sexism in non-gendered problem, you fight the good war against sexism.