Type of Content
Approved Story
1
Format
Region
Google during its annual review of wage equality at the company found that it had been underpaying some male engineers in 2018.
The company quickly corrected course, compensating the men equally to their female peers after the wage analysis identified the discrepancy.
"The 2018 analysis flagged one particularly large job code, Level 4 Software Engineer, for adjustments," Google wrote in a Monday blog post. "Within this job code, men were flagged for adjustments because they received less discretionary funds than women."
While men in that job category were paid equal salaries to women, the study found that managers were allotting more "discretionary funds" to female engineers.
The finding comes as Google continues to wrestle internally and externally with the issue of gender equality. The Department of Labor is still investigating claims that Google systematically underpays its female employees, which the tech giant has denied.