Pay Transparency for Federal Contractor Employees

How do you know if you are getting paid what other's earn if you can't ask them? Well you can!

"Pay Equity: The Minnesota Experience" is now available!

Here's what we did! 

Excerpted from the summary and full report...

• State Government Pay Equity Act
  
  The State Government Pay Equity Act has eliminated the gender pay gap for job classes* of comparable value. 

• Women in state government employment today on average earn 89% of male wages, a 20 percentage point improvement since 1976.
  
  
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  To close the lingering 11 cents gender wage gap, not only will more women have to go into traditional male occupations, but more men will have to go into traditional female occupations. If office/clerical jobs were held equally by men and women, and skilled craft jobs were held equally by both genders, the state government wage gap would decrease to 2 percent, no longer a significant difference.

  
  
  Local Government Pay Equity Act
  
  Women in local government employment on average earn 88% of male wages. An improvement over the private/public sector where women earn 81% of male wages. 
  
  When wages are compared for job classes* of comparable value, the gender wage gap disappears. 
  
  
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Full Report: http://www.oesw.leg.mn/PDFdocs/Pay_Equity_Report2016.pdf

Summary: http://www.oesw.leg.mn/PDFdocs/PE_Report_Summary.pdf

*A job class is a group of similar jobs that have the same job title. Examples from the report p. 21 "Officials & Administrators, Professionals, Technicians, Protective Service, Paraprofessionals, Office/Clerical, Skilled Craft, Service Maintenance"