Seeing a comparison between men and women’s salaries somewhere on the Interweb this morning it occurred to me to wonder how such comparisons are made, whether or not outliers are included. Typically, in my experience, people tend to use statistics that best seem to prove their point. So if you want to show a wide salary difference between men and women leave in Bill Gates and the CEOs of the world.
But to do so would not be a fair comparison really, because the glass ceiling is a separate issue, and salaries at that level are so skewed that they don’t really mean anymore to the average man than they do to the average woman. We’re talking about differences of a magnitude of 10,000ish at the average level. Throughout the billionaires and the multimillionaires, regardless of the fact that most of them are men, and the difference may not be so great. Just an unpolished observation.
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