GeekWire: Microsoft joins Amazon in claiming gender pay equity—but the numbers don't tell the whole story

April 12 is Equal Pay Day, a date chosen because it represents the additional days a typical woman would have to work to catch up to the money earned by her male counterparts. To mark this date, Microsoft has followed Amazon’s lead by disclosing employee pay equity numbers, comparing pay for men and women in the same roles. In a statement released Monday, Microsoft says female employees earn 99.8 cents for every dollar earned by men with the same job title and level in the U.S. A few weeks ago, Amazon made a similar disclosure. After an internal review, the retail giant said that female employees earn 99.9 cents for every dollar male employees in the same roles earn.

Both Seattle-area tech giants disclosed these numbers after Arjuna Capital, a division of the investment advisor firm Baldwin Brothers Inc., called on tech companies to be more transparent about men and women’s salaries.

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