salary equity
Equal compensation principle
Salary equity is the principle that employees doing comparable work should receive comparable pay, regardless of gender, race, or other demographic factors.
Companies conduct salary equity audits to identify and correct pay disparities: The firm adjusted compensation after their salary equity review revealed a gender gap.
Distinguished from pay equality, which demands identical wages for identical roles—salary equity accounts for experience, performance, and legitimate differentiators while eliminating discriminatory gaps.
- income distributionHow earnings are shared
- pay transparencyOpen sharing of compensation information
- workplace justiceFair treatment at work
- HR policiesDocumented workplace standards
- human resourcesEmployee administration department
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Unequal compensation for comparable work
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salary equitypay inequality
Unequal compensation for work
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