Overall, high-tech women report lower earnings, less job satisfaction

As Speed Matters and others have been reporting, the high tech industry suffers from a profound racial and gender divide when it comes to earnings. At some companies, the lowest ranks are filled almost entirely by people of color, and at the highest, women are conspicuously in low supply.

A new report from Glassdoor, a women’s hiring website, looked at median salary and average employee satisfaction by gender at 25 tech companies, and what they found was generally dismal, with a few exceptions.

According to the report, “At most of these companies, men report earning a higher base salary than women for the same role (it is important to note the average years of experience reported in each position).”

Overall, there’s a “$6,000 discrepancy in median base salary when comparing women ($94,967, 3.2 years of experience) to men ($101,006, 3.3 years experience) in the software development engineer role at Microsoft.”

However, at Google, “... women software engineers report earning an annual base salary of $117,740 (and report 3.5 years experience), more than $4,000 more than men ($113,548, with 3.9 years experience) in the same role.”

But in general, women report less job satisfaction and career opportunities than their male counterparts, and most women depart – at lower salary levels – than do men.

Amazon “another lack-of-diversity-in-tech story” (Speed Matters, Nov. 7, 2014)

The Gender Pay Gap Revealed in Tech (Glassdoor blog, Nov. 17, 2014)