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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: 3, Informative) by quintessence on Friday August 05 2016, @08:40PM

    by quintessence (6227) on Friday August 05 2016, @08:40PM (#384615)

    It's not that clear-cut.

    Suppose a company needed to hire certain positions RIGHT NOW, they might be willing to pay a little more. Even paying more than people currently in that position are making.

    Eventually talk around the water-cooler gets around, people note the discrepancy, and the imagination goes wild at what the cause might be.

    Place I work at is going through that right now, with new hires making significantly more than the old guard. There are lots of recriminations at what the causes might be, and HR is staring down a discrimination suit or possibly a mass exodus (they've already lost quite a few people), and now there is the possibility of retention bonuses attempting to make-up the gap and fast-tracking raises for certain employees.

    But taking a snapshot now from the outside, it doesn't look good.

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