Overview

For the past four years, we’ve gone deep into our career marketplace to study what the gender wage gap looks like for tech workers at some of the most innovative companies of our time. Because we have unprecedented visibility into tech workers’ salary preferences and company offers, we’re able to analyze the salaries candidates expect on our marketplace, the salaries companies offer, and how that changes across geography, age group, role, race, and sexual orientation. We also wanted to have a well-rounded understanding of how women and men think about the wage gap, so we paired our proprietary marketplace data with a survey of more than 2,600 tech workers. Our goal was to learn about their personal experience with pay inequality and workplace trends they have experienced first hand.

And for the first time, we can say we are seeing glimmers of progress

After two straight years of the wage gap holding steady at 4% it dropped to 3%. Companies are interviewing more women and most cities have improved their own wage gaps, and perhaps most importantly, women are even beginning to ask for salaries that match their market worth.

We release this proprietary (real) data based on salary offers made on our platform because we want to arm tech talent with the numbers they need to negotiate fair pay, and to help companies understand their role in reaching pay equality. There’s still a lot of work to be done — women are still experiencing discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, and age, which negatively impacts salary offers — but the numbers show we might be headed in the right direction.