What Do Managers Most Need to Improve
We surveyed thousands of employees and asked them “What does your direct manager need to improve?”. By far, the most common answer was Communications. We’ve broken down the full set of results below:
Career Planning Study: Data from Tech Employees
We surveyed over 8,000 employees working in Tech to find out if they had a plan for their career based on their Ethnicity, Age, Job Title, City, Gender, and Education. In terms of those who did have a career plan, we found that men were 4% more likely to have a plan than women, and … Read full-story
Product Compensation In Tech
We surveyed more than 2,000 product employees working in tech to find out how their compensation was broken down by Job Title and Gender, Ethnicity and by eight different cities in the U.S. In terms of pay differential, we found that women in product marketing make more than men by 12%, while male technical writers … Read full-story
Work-Life Balance Study
We surveyed more than 6,000 Tech employees in major U.S cities to see if they were satisfied with their work-life balance. We broke the data by Gender, Ethnicity, Age, Job Title, Location, and Department. We found that 81% of Senior Designers were satisfied with their work/life balance while only 46% of Sales Managers felt the same. … Read full-story
Marketing Salaries By City
We surveyed more than 1,600 Tech employees that work in Marketing to compare their total compensation across the country. The average annual compensation for the positions of Marketing Manager, Director of Marketing and VP of Marketing were calculated for the cities of Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Marketing Managers in Boston … Read full-story
Salary Negotiations Study: Data from Tech Employees
How many people working in Tech negotiated their salary? We surveyed 5,000 employees to find out. Our latest infographic breaks down those that negotiated their salary by gender, job function, ethnicity, age, city, and work experience. We found that employees between the ages of 18 and 25 were least likely to negotiate their salary compared … Read full-story
The top 17 startups to launch so far in 2016
Business Insider spoke to founders and venture capitalists and took a look at funding data to identify some of the startups that had the biggest starts in 2016. Some names on the list are officially launching out of stealth, while others are still in their early months of forming a company.
Engineering Salaries by City
We’ve broken out the compensation (average base + bonus) of Developers, Senior Developers, & Directors of Engineering in 5 major tech hubs across the US: San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Austin & Denver. Furthermore, we show the compensation based on companies sized: 11-50, 51-200, and 201-1000 employees. For each survey we have a sample … Read full-story
The Gender Pay Gap in Tech
We did a survey of over 10,000 employees in the Tech Industry, to better understand what’s going on with the Gender Pay Gap in Tech. We broke the results down by Age, Ethnicity, Education, Location, and Department. The results in the Info-graphic below were fascinating. You can see more transparent compensation and culture on Comparably. … Read full-story
Employees Rate Their Companies on Comparably
Today we launched a major new product to let employees publicly rate their companies: Company Employee Reviews. See how your co-workers rate your company. Be a part of our community of thousands of employees making work more transparent; add your anonymous rating today. Key Highlights * Comprehensive company reviews can be completed in a minute by … Read full-story
How Long do You Take for Lunch Breaks
Over 3500 employees in Tech were polled and asked, “How Long Do You Take for Lunch Breaks”. The info-graphic breaks down the answers by Gender, Work Departments and Cities. The data was complied and visualized by Comparably, the online platform for transparency in workplace compensation and culture. Comparably lets employees see what people like them … Read full-story
How Women vs Men Think about Work Mentors & Friends
Along with our compensation survey, we polled our users asking them “Do You Have a Mentor at Work” and “Do you have a close friend at work”. A great deal of research shows that people that have a best friend at work, tend to stay in those companies longer. And I’ve written extensively about the … Read full-story
Are You Paid Fairly? – Women vs Men Respond
It’s been a couple weeks since our launch, and we’re excited to publish our first set of compensation data from Comparably. Over 1000 people working in tech responded to these two questions: “Do you believe you’re paid fairly?” & “Are you satisfied with your equity compensation”? We then broke this data down by Women vs … Read full-story
Comparably.com Launches; Brings Transparency to Work Pay and Culture
The Company raises $6.5M to make workplaces better & more transparent, #talkpay Santa Monica, CA March 3rd, 2016 – Comparably (www.comparably.com) launches today. The platform will provide the most specific & comprehensive compensation & culture data to understand employees’ true value & needs, to make work better. Focused on the tech industry to start (soon … Read full-story