Female computer programmers make 72 percent of every dollar earned by a male programmer.
That s one of the findings of a new study by Glassdoor, the jobs and recruiting marketplace, which looked at salary data of more than 500,000 people over 140 professions.
U.S. women earn about 76 cents for every dollar men earn.
But that gap shrinks to 94.6 cents for every dollar after fully adjusting for factors such as age, education, years of experiences, job title, employer and location.
Part of the explanation for the large computer programmer wage gap, said Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at Glassdoor, is that these are the scientific programmers, people who would do coding with mainframe computing or scientific. It s one of the older profession.
How do other tech industry professions stack up?
Game Artist – $0.84
Information Security Specialist – $0.85
Data Specialist – $0.76
Software Architect – $0.89
SEO Strategist – $0.90
Front End Engineer – $0.90
Database Engineer – $0.90
Sharepoint Developer – $0.91
SAP Developer – $0.92
On the upside, two professions in great demand show women doing at or better than the national average:
Software Engineer – $0.94Mobile Developer – $0.97
On the downside, as tech jobs open up in other fields such as health care and media, the gender wage gap increases there, Chamberlain said.
Above: A class of computer scientists at the start of their summer internships at Silicon Valley tech companies organized by CODE2040, which is dedicated to helping women and minorities break into the tech world. (Photo courtesy CODE2040)
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