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There could be a million things that would cause these discrepancies, like differences in education and/or family background of the relevant populations. It cou
by x1798DE 10y ago
There could be a million things that would cause these discrepancies, like differences in education and/or family background of the relevant populations. It could even be something "positive" like if there's a perceived lack of black engineers relative to the number of high-skilled black engineers that are out there, companies may be more likely to hire marginal candidates or retrain promising candidates from other fields (IT, security) - this would skew the average salary down because they "padded" the distribution of black engineers by hiring outside their normal candidate pool.
- loco5niner 10y agoThis line supports your point. > When we look at our two largest markets on Hired’s platform, San Francisco and New York, the average African-American candidate on the Hired platform is 49 percent more likely to get hired than the average white person.
- x1798DE 10y agoTo be fair, you'd also observe the exact same thing if black engineer salaries were artificially depressed relative to their skill level, since if you can get equivalent quality for less money, why not?