The Gender Pay Gap is Getting Worse for General Counsel
According to Equilar’s latest General Counsel Pay Trends study, which crunches pay data from publicly traded companies in the U.S., male general counsel make on average 18.6 percent more than women in the same roles, reports Above the Law.
That gap is the largest recorded since Equilar began studying the metric in 2014.
The report shows that “in the 2017 to 2018 period, median GC compensation for men increased — from $2.52 million to $2.63 million — while median pay for women GCs fell — from $2.44 million to $2.21 million,” writes Above the Law’s Kathryn Rubino.
The publication analyzes the compensation of general counsel disclosed in SEC filings for the past five fiscal years. The companies are the 500 largest, by reported revenue, U.S.-headquartered companies that trade on one of the three major U.S. stock exchanges.
Read the Above the Law article.
