Google says it spent about $270K to close wage gaps across race and gender

According to Google’s most recent pay analysis, the company said that it found no significant difference in what it pays its employees across race and gender. The tech giant mentioned in a blog post about the unexplained pay discrepancies and then made adjustments where it found necessary.

The analysis found statistically significant pay differences for 228 employees across six job groups. So, Google provided increased compensation for each of those employees totaling to about $270,000 in total. It didn’t specify how that increased compensation is distributed among the employees, but each would get an increase of a bit more than $1,000 per year.

After the revised gender-pay class-action lawsuit that hit Google alleging that the company paid less to women in comparison with their male counterparts, it asked new hires about their prior salaries. Before the lawsuit, the Department of Labor (DoL) looked into Google’s pay practices. Last January, the DoL filed a lawsuit against Google in order to pick up compensation information, as part of a routine compliance evaluation. In April, the DoL affirmed in court that pay inequities at Google are “systemic.”

But Google didn’t agree to DoL’s claims that the pay inequities at the company were systemic. In June, Google was supported by an administrative judge ruling that it did not need to hand over all of the data that DoL requested.