Throwaway of a googler here. These results could be explained by not promoting women as fast as men, because every year it is expected you will get a CoL and pe

Throwaway of a googler here. These results could be explained by not promoting women as fast as men, because every year it is expected you will get a CoL and performance based raise if you exceeed expectations for your role, regardless if you exceed enough to convince a promo committee of a level change. So this could mean that women stay at lower job titles longer. It could also mean that they sign into the company with higher base salaries. I have seen that maybe happen once in my experience for the same experience level but I have no way of correcting that for their interview performance or how well they negotiated. Basically I don’t think this data point is super useful on its own.