Glassdoor report finds that the adjusted gender wage gap is significantly smaller than the raw wage gap.
Anderew Chamberlain, Demystifying the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Glassdoor Salary Data, Glassdoor Economic Research, March 23, 2016, accessed January 24, 2022
HOW LARGE IS THE GAP?
Based on more than 505,000 salaries shared by full-time U.S. employees on Glassdoor, men earn 24.1 percent higher base pay than women on average. In other words, women earn about 76 cents per dollar men earn. This is consistent with official sources that show women earn on average 75 to 80 cents per dollar earned by men. However, comparing workers with similar age, education and years of experience shrinks that gap to 19.2 percent. Further, comparing workers with the same job title, employer and location, the gender pay gap in the U.S. falls to 5.4 percent (94.6 cents per dollar).
We find a similar pattern in all five countries we examined: a large overall or “unadjusted” gender pay gap, which shrinks to a smaller “adjusted” pay gap once statistical controls are added.