Human Resources departments are dominated by women 70 percent of the time, yet men in the field dominate when it comes to salary. The pay gap between male and female HR executives trickles down to every level of the department: In 2007, the median salary for male HR managers was 47 percent more than female paychecks, while male rank-and-file employees took home 28 percent more than their female counterparts.
One HR consultant assumes the gap could be blamed at least partially on the fact that many men in HR were executives at other firms who were recruited to their roles and enticed with the hefty compensation they were already earning. It is interesting that the people in charge of our payroll and employment issues have their own very visible gender wage-gap.
Orlando Orlandini
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That really makes me angry!!
1Once, my co-worker was forced to recruit HER ADMIN at a higher salary than herself. The admin was the daughter of a friend of the CEOs. It was humiliating for my co-worker. Not exactly a gender gap, but it is a unique experience to be in HR and have that sort of visibility.
2In our HR department, the men work mostly in compensation analysis while the women are either generalists or work in benefits. The varying roles within an HR department might have something to do with pay discrepancy.
3that's still really frustrating if you think about it. i feel like we're not given an even fight here if regardless of the department we're going to make less. NOT FAIR!
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