Women with jobs in the predictive analytics field earn roughly the same as their male counterparts.
Women in other IT fields are not as fortunate, as the 2018 Interop/InformationWeek IT Salary Survey revealed that women were paid about $10,000 less than their male counterparts in equivalent positions.
Jessica Davis wrote this report on pay equity in predictive analytics for InformationWeek:
The Burtchworks survey of 1,791 predictive analytics pros this year has been conducted on an annual basis since 2013, and shows that women at almost every level of experience make 95% to 97% of what their male counterparts earn at the same job level. The only exception in this year’s survey is for level 2 managers — those who are responsible for executing on strategy and who have between 4 and 9 direct reports. In this role at this level, women earn the same as men.
“Our data that we’ve collected over the past six years has shown women’s salaries in predictive analytics are on par with men’s in most cases, including in the specialized subset of data science,” Burtchworks partner and executive recruiter Katie Ferguson told InformationWeek.
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Another emerging trend is the effects of new prohibitions on employers asking prospective employees for their salary histories. Burtchworks said that these new laws are spreading. They are intended to provide pay equity for groups that have been traditionally underpaid, such as women and minorities.
For the women IT workers who don’t want to change fields, these new laws could mean a more positive trend in their salaries and salary negotiations. Those efforts may already be working. The Interop ITX/InformationWeek salary survey indicated that women’s pay had risen faster than men’s pay over the last few years. It’s still not the same, but it is catching up at a faster rate.
