- Meta once aimed to make its global workforce half women and underrepresented groups by this year.
- The company still pays women overseas less than men and gives them far less bonuses.
- Globally, the number of women working at Meta has increased by just 1% since 2018.
If you are a woman working for Meta abroad, you may be paid significantly less than the average man working there.
The company, formerly known as Facebook, continues to pay women less than men, whether for hourly workers or salaries, according to Meta’s latest available pay gap report. in England and Ireland. The company also offers small bonuses to women, according to the report.
Most of the company’s employees are in the United States, which does not require pay gap disclosures from companies, but Meta has about 3,000 employees in Ireland and about 5,000 in the United Kingdom, and currently About 10% of our global workforce. layoffs are expected soon.
Meta’s report on wage disparity in Ireland is the latest, new law It is a country that came into effect last year. In 2022, a woman working at Meta in Ireland was paid, on average, 15.7% less than her men at the company. The difference in domestic bonuses is even greater, with women’s average bonuses being 43.3% lower for her than for men.
According to last year’s report detailing wage data for 2021, the pay gap for women at Meta in the UK, where the company operates outside London, is small but still widespread. average guy. Again, the difference in bonuses is much greater, with the average bonus paid to women he 34.8% less than the bonus paid to men.
The pay gap in Meta in the UK is actually worse than when it first started reporting figures in 2018. At that time, a woman’s salary was on average 0.9% less than a man’s, but her bonus salary was 40% less than hers.
Meta’s base salary often starts at around $150,000 a year, so a woman earning that much in Ireland can expect a man to make around $23,000 more than she does. British women can expect men to earn about $3,000 more.
For several years, the company said it was working towards a “vision” of making half of the global workforce women and people from “underrepresented groups”. Two years ago, the company planned to hit that target by 2023 for her, but last year’s diversity report from the company said the target appears to have been pushed to her 2024. not enough of that goal. As of last year, women made up her 37% of the workforce, up just 1% from her 2018 when Meta began sharing its diversity report.
A spokeswoman for Meta said the company “regularly conducts pay equity analysis and the latest analysis found that pay equity is higher across men and women and by race around the world for people doing similar jobs. (considering factors such as location, role, level, etc.)” )”
In a report showing the ongoing pay gap, Meta says the pay inequality problem comes down to fewer women in tech jobs. In Ireland, the company says nearly half of its workforce is men and women, but reports show men are doing more advanced, technology-focused jobs.
“Technical jobs like production engineers are typically paid more in the market, which disproportionately impacts wage inequality,” Mehta said in the report. Likewise, the equity awards and bonuses for these types of roles are also greater.
In the UK, Meta acknowledged that there is an ongoing problem of ‘unequal representation’ within the company due to the growing number of men working across the company and in technical positions, particularly senior technical positions. The company added that most of the UK workforce is dedicated to engineering.
“The talent pool, especially in senior positions, continues to be dominated by men,” Ms. Mehta said in the report.
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