India-born Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who was recently criticized over his remarks that suggested women should not ask for a raise but should rather trust the system to pay them well, on Monday claimed men and women employees gets equal pay at his company.
While addressing a press gathering in San Francisco along with Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise executive vice president, Scott Guthrie, on Monday, Nadella said “We are in fact in good shape. Men and women get paid equally at Microsoft.”
The event was intended to discuss about the company’s several new Azure cloud services and how the new offering stacks up against rival cloud computing services.
Nadella’s statement runs counter to statistics from job site Glassdoor which suggest that women tend to earn less doing a similar job than men at the Redmond, although the numbers are based on a very small employee sample size who agreed to share their pay figures with Glassdoor.
According to Glassdoor statistics, a male Microsoft senior software development engineer earns round $137,000 per year as compared to $129,000 earned by women.
As per recent figures revealed by Microsoft, female accounts for only 29 percent of the company’s more than 100,000 employees, with only 17 percent working directly in technology.
Nadella acknowledged that the company still needs to do a lot of work on women employment issue.
“We have made some progress,” he said.
“We have a lot more to do.”
