Apple gender pay gap lawsuit

> with similar education and experience

Anyone who uses this as the sole basis to decide if pay is equivalent between people has no idea what companies actually care about.

She sounds like a nightmare to manage.

She said she found out from a W-2 on the printer. I worked with a guy who found out a co-worker was making $10k more than him based on a paystub left on the printer. They were both guys and relatively new hires. One simply negotiated better coming into the job I suppose. I talked the guy making less off the ledge and he went to work. He was a better worker in every way vs the guy getting paid more, and over time it worked itself out. He ended up getting a bunch of promotions and raises, while the other guy eventually got let go. Working harder is the appropriate action, not filing a lawsuit. If she leaves Apple, who is going to hire her knowing that’s now her move?

These lawsuits may win over a jury but I have trouble believing the claims, as they often make arguments based on ideas like having similar experience or similar education, or similar work as some other person they’re comparing to. But anyone who has been a manager knows that performance can vary significantly between individual employees in skilled jobs, and someone that seems to do similar kinds of work may have very different impact.

The claim that they were hired at a lower pay that never got changed to match the same track as higher pay employees is also just an issue that affects everyone. It even has a name - salary inversion.

FWIW I worked as a SWE at Apple for a few years and it did not seem like women were discriminated against in any way. In my experience these pay differences overwhelmingly come down to not being aggressive enough when negotiating offers and bonuses.