My wife was taken aside by her HR rep (she's a senior SWE at a company that is not a FAANG but is very well known in our industry and routinely featured in arti

My wife was taken aside by her HR rep (she's a senior SWE at a company that is not a FAANG but is very well known in our industry and routinely featured in articles that make the HN front page) and told, more or less, "We did some analysis on employee pay rates and found that you were being underpaid, we've adjusted your pay rate accordingly." It wasn't _only_ females, a few of her male colleagues went through the same process. Of course, what isn't known is experience levels, years of experience, title, and the amount they were all being underpaid. My wife isn't a pushover and when she accepted this position ~4 years ago she was compensated around market average, yet the pay bump they gave her was significant. It's left us with a lot of questions.