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> namely $1,353,052 in back pay and interest to 2,565 female employees in engineering positions subject to pay discrimination; and $1,232,000 in back pay and in
by fallingknife 6y ago
> namely $1,353,052 in back pay and interest to 2,565 female employees in engineering positions subject to pay discrimination; and $1,232,000 in back pay and interest to 1,757 female and 1,219 Asian applicants for software engineering positions not hired.
So that's 2.585M / 5541 = $467 per employee. Assuming an average comp of $250K, that's a 0.2% difference. How can that be determined to be discrimination? Is that even a statistically significant difference?
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoIt's very doubtful this settlement truly entails paying everyone their actual lost wages. The term "settlement" indicates some sort of agreed upon terms.
- worker767424 6y agoI'm not even sure what the point was when the amount is so low.
- jjulius 6y agoPreventing it from recurring.
- worker767424 6y agoStill seems cheap.
- worker767424 6y agoHow does the Department of Labor even make this claim when the numbers are likely within the error bars? Not that Google would care to fight this. For Google, $1.3M is like getting back a Canadian quarter in change.
- advisedwang 6y agoThat is the settlement amount. It's possible that the actual pay gap was much larger.