The Seattle-based online retailer, Amazon.com Inc., known
for their prime shipping and great rates for students is under review for their
equal pay among genders. Among the equal pay employees is the staff for the
corporate offices as well as the warehouse workers, minorities included. Total
women’s compensation was 99.9% of men’s in equivalent jobs, while minorities
were getting 100.1% compensation.
Many companies have fluctuating compensation among genders
and social classes, but Amazon is committed to keeping their compensation fair
and equitable. With the upcoming election, this will be hot topic on everyone’s
mind. Do the candidates believe it should be equal or slightly different among
the genders? The U.S. Census estimates the median pay for women is 21% less
than a man’s showing the change that needs to be fixed.
Among other companies like Apple Inc. and Intel Corp., the
difference between the gender pay is less than 1%. Alphabet Inc., Facebook
Inc., and Microsoft Corp. are all being pushed by their shareholders to release
their equal pay percentages in order to boost their companies name and revenue. If you owned a company, would you pay the men more than the women or would you support equal pay among genders?
Title: Amazon Survey Shows Equal Gender Pay Among Its
Workforce
Author: Greg Bensinger
Date: March 23, 2016
URL: http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-survey-shows-equal-gender-pay-among-its-workforce-1458761615
Image: http://www.gop.gov/app/uploads/2015/04/Equal-Pay-Day.png
I feel like this article makes a good point when they mention this will become prominent in the upcoming election. For people who work in companies where equal pay is not applied, they see a problem. Some employers are getting away with not equally paying opposite genders because we live in a society where talking about salaries is not socially acceptable. I applaud the companies that have modernized salaries to accommodate the equal work equal pay mentality.
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