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Happy Friday! We've got a new dinosaur, and you know it's a good one when even the paleontologists involved are calling it "bizarre."
In today's big story, we're taking a deeper look at the leaked Google salary data by looking at pay ranges across various factors.
What's on deck:
Markets: Hedge fund returns are in for August.
Tech: Silicon Valley doesn't have an innovative culture, according to a high-profile tech exec.
Business: Read this before you conduct your next performance review.
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The big story
It's no secret you can make a lot of money working at Google. But exactly how much?
Insider's Rosalie Chan, Hugh Langley, and Madison Hoff have done a tremendous job answering that question. Earlier this summer, the trio authored perhaps the most comprehensive look into Google's pay thanks to an internal salary spreadsheet they viewed.
The sheet detailed 2022 base salaries, equity, and bonuses from over 12,000 Google employees in the US.
Rosalie, Hugh, and Madison dove back into the numbers to analyze pay ranges across levels, locations, races, and gender.
It's worth noting that this data represents only a fraction of Google's workforce in the US. The salary data, which was voluntarily self-reported by employees, also isn't an official Google report.
"This spreadsheet has old, self-reported data that has not been verified and is not an accurate representation of compensation across our workforce," a Google spokesperson said.
I chatted with Rosalie, Hugh, and Madison to take a deeper look at the numbers and highlight some interesting takeaways.
Google has somewhat closed the gender wage gap. Pay disparity between men and women is a long-standing issue in the broader business world. Google hasn't been immune to this, agreeing to pay $118 million to more than 15,000 employees last year to settle a longstanding lawsuit over gender discrimination and equitable pay. According to the internal doc, the median base salary for women in some roles — sales strategy, enterprise direct sales — was actually higher than their male counterparts. Still, the overall median base salary for women ($165,000) lagged behind men ($172,500).
But there's still work to be done regarding the racial pay gap. Google employees who identified as being of Black/African descent had a median base salary at least $23,000 below their Asian, White, and Middle Eastern/North African colleagues. The gap didn't improve among software engineers, as those of Black/African descent had a median base salary $24,500 lower than those of white or European descent.
Location, location, location. It pays to be on the coasts at Google, as that's where employees with the largest reported equity and bonuses were located. The maximum bonus — $605,000 — came from Google's New York office. For equity, the largest reported figure — $1.5 million — came from, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Bay Area.
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3 things in tech
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3 things in business
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