Twenty-seven percent of women employed at technology companies say they have been sexually harassed at work, according to data compiled by Comparably. That’s only slightly higher than at non-tech companies, where 24% of women say they have been sexually harassed. The results, culled from more than 10,000 workers who responded to an ongoing query on Comparably, … Read full-story
This article originally appeared on Fortune. We’re not defined by our mistakes, but rather how we handle those mistakes and who we become in the process. Here’s the best game plan I can provide on how to bounce back after making a major mistake at work: Immediately take responsibility Don’t compound the situation by getting … Read full-story
This article was originally published by Inc. Company culture is people. The culture of any company is defined by the values and intentions of its employees. Nothing is more important than hiring great people. But what can we do once the team is in place to make the culture as great as possible? And what practices … Read full-story
Today is Equal Pay Day 2017. And as part of our mission to Make Work Transparent & Rewarding, we’re releasing the study below on how Tech salaries break out across gender and ethnic lines in the major tech hubs across the US. The following study was comprised from over 50,000+ salary records consisting of 150+ most popular … Read full-story
If you were to quit your job tomorrow, what would be the reason? For nearly 40% of people, feeling underpaid or unappreciated would be it, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. The query garnered nearly 33,000 responses from employees across the tech world. The value of feeling appreciated Feeling underpaid or unappreciated … Read full-story
What makes for great company cultures? On our Company Pages on Comparably we break down company culture into 5 key areas: Leadership, Compensation, Team, Environment, Sentiment. We’ve had thousands of employees at top Tech companies rate their work experience anonymously on Comparably. We focus on structured data that can be used to help drive valuable insights … Read full-story
Underpaid? If you’re looking for a raise, or just want to make sure you’re paid fairly, negotiate your salary like a boss with Comparably, an invaluable resource for your career. Comparably makes workplace compensation and culture dramatically more transparent with the most comprehensive data in the industry. It offers accurate salaries, equity, and work culture statistics … Read full-story
More than 12,500 employees in Tech were asked if they were excited to go to work. The data was segmented by Gender, Ethnicity, Department, Education Level, City, and Job Title. Men were more excited to go to work than females by 7%. Hispanics or Latinos were the most excited about going to work, while African … Read full-story
More than 1000 employees working in tech were surveyed to see if they have been promoted in the past five years. The data was segmented by Gender, Ethnicity, Department, Age, Education, and Location. Asian or Pacific Islanders were the most promoted Ethnicity, while African Americans were the least. Among a list of departments, 76 percent … Read full-story
More than 1,500 Design employees working in Tech were surveyed to find how their compensation was segmented based on their Gender, Job Title, Ethnicity, and City. The results showed that female Designers made 12 percent more than male designers. However, male Art Directors made 23 percent more than female. In terms of Ethnicity, Asian or … Read full-story
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
