Katrina Jones, vice president of people and operations at Lean In, experienced being underpaid relative to someone her junior before joining her current role. ![]() And it still took a year for that negotiation to reflect in her paycheck. ![]() The discrepancy was substantial, and only after independent research among female peers to determine going comp salaries and a real-talk negotiation with her higher-ups, was Malcolm-Thornton able to realize what she called a “course correction” with her salary. I had the highest-performing team and here I am being paid almost $100,000 less than my white counterpart,” she said. I had a larger team than what had at that time, so I was deeply disappointed and thought all along that this was truly a meritocracy. “When I moved into management, we were all talking about how much we made. And by contrast, white women are losing out on $555,000 over their lifetimes compared to white men.īlack women earn 58 cents for every $1 a white man earns, or 42 percent less (that’s 21 percent less than white women).įor Pauline Malcolm-Thornton, chief revenue officer at Essence, who spoke during the video discussion, she’d thought sales would be the best place to realize balanced pay prior to her role at Essence, but that didn’t turn out to be the case. ![]() More specifically, that’s more than $964,000, according to Lean In, which cited stats from the National Women’s Law Center.
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