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Intel pays men and women the same

by on04 February 2016


Just does not hire as many

Intel is unusual in the tech industry in that it does not discriminate against women when it comes to salaries.

While many tech companies issue “annual reports on diversity” this is usually comes with a promise that the “company will do better” usually stated by a white, middle aged manager with lots of spin and no mention of how they will do it.

Intel’s report is a little different. It publicly discloses its diversity goals — such as the percentage of new hires that should be women or underrepresented minorities — and it revealed that there was no no pay gap between men and women who work at the same job-grade level within Intel.

Intel has apparently conducted a compensation analysis in 2015 that went beyond its annual pay audit to examine gender-pay parity for US employees within job grade levels.

Danielle Brown, Intel’s chief diversity and inclusion officer said the results surprised her but apparently the company has been working at getting pay parity for women for a decade.

It is a long way from being perfect. She said the company would next work for pay parity for minorities.

Intel’s diversity report is an update on its promise early last year to invest $300 million in diversity efforts over five years and reach what it called “full representation at all levels of our company’s workforce by 2020.

Intel is not after a representation of the full U.S. population, but rather, the number of women and minorities who have the job skills Intel needs. However that does mean that 40 percent of its new hires would be women or underrepresented minorities.

So far it has beaten that goal as 43.1 percent of new hires in 2015 were “diverse” candidates. It will boost its 2016 diverse hiring goal to 45 percent, with a “sub-goal” of 14 percent of new hires being underrepresented minorities, higher than the 11.8 percent of hires in 2015 who were from those groups.

Intel still has work to do on its glass ceiling. The report also said women now make up 17.6 of leadership roles which is 14.3 percent better than 2014, but still rubbish.
Chipzilla also feels that retention of its underrepresented minorities is poor and fell short of its goal in 2015.

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