Slack, Match Lead Firms Pledging to Find and Close Gender Pay Gaps
Analyzing employee pay data is hard and expensive, but a Seattle data firm is pushing companies to hew to a common standard
'Equal Pay Day' rally in front of the U.S Mint in 2000
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Are women paid the same as men in your office? How about people of color compared with white people? If you work in the U.S., there’s a good chance you don’t know—and neither, to be honest, does your employer.
The only companies legally required to analyze their payroll to assess whether or how they may be contributing to racial or gender inequalities in pay are government contractors. A few others do it anyway, whether out of some altruistic belief in fairness or in response to public pressure, but the vast majority of U.S. companies don’t bother.