By Hailley Griffis

For the first time since we started analyzing the gender pay gap at Buffer, our unadjusted gender pay gap is below one percent. Although this number will certainly fluctuate with team changes, we're proud and happy to see this progress. ❤️

As a reminder, unadjusted means that we are comparing all salaries across Buffer. Adjusted is comparing two people in the same role, we don’t have an adjusted pay gap as we use a salary formula to determine compensation.

Here’s a closer look at our pay analysis from 2022 and some of the elements from this past year we believe impacted this number.

Buffer’s 2022 Pay Analysis

Our team size has stayed roughly the same over the last 12 months, we have 83 Buffer teammates. Of those, 37 identify as women, and 46 identify as men.
The average salary for women is $136,850 and the average salary for men is $137,418, making our unadjusted pay gap percentage 0.41%.

Buffer team: 83 people
Women: 37
Men: 46        

Average salary for women: $136,850
Average salary for men: $137,418
Unadjusted percentage gap: 0.41%

*Note: We can’t share data from the folks on our team who don’t identify as men or women as it is not a representative sample so we’ve opted to leave it out of this report but that may change for future reports depending on how we collect data internally.

Since 2018, this what our unadjusted gender pay gap percentage has looked like:

In 2019, our gap got worse before it got better. As we’ve reflected on this over the years, we believe this is because being a smaller company, each departure, and new hire moves the number and in 2019 we hired more women who were in lower experience levels. As a result, we widened our gender pay gap, though we improved our overall gender ratio as a company and we believe this paid off in the long-term.

Here's a look at the gender split on the Buffer team over the last five years:

We also see a lot of fluctuation in between these pay analyses also due to new hires and departures.

You can see over the last 12 months that every month has been quite different:

Closing the unadjusted gender pay gap at Buffer is something we’ve been working on for years and is cause for celebration. Initially, this didn’t feel like a goal we could attain given that our co-founder and CEO, Joel, is our highest-paid employee and also …read more

Source:: Buffer Blog

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