According to data from salary comparison tool Comparably, tech workers are likely to earn far more money working at a public technology company compared to a private one (by almost double for senior developers). And if you're working in San Francisco, you're in luck – you're probably going to make more money than those living in Los Angeles or New York City...though the significantly higher cost of living is probably the reason behind that.
What's least surprising (or perhaps most surprising if you're still somehow unaware of the gender pay gap) is that, for sales managers, women, on average, make 31% less money for the same job at public companies than men.
Silicon Valley is especially and unfortunately notorious for its gender discrimination problems as it is in the midst of an ethical crisis following ex-Googler James Damore's 10-page manifesto. Hidden bias is coded into the system as fewer women are graduating as technologists, which Melinda Gates hopes to address:
"It hasn't been welcoming to women now for more than a decade. So it's something that's actually been going on for a long time and I don't think you see it being worked on in a systemic way and I think it needs to be worked on in a systemic way. If that doesn't get reversed, you're not going to have young women wanting to go into the field. If you don't have a diverse workforce programming artificial intelligence and thinking about the data sets to feed in, and how to look at a particular program, you're going to have so much bias in the system, you're going to have a hard time rolling it back later or taking it out."
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