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From: Fast Company Compass - Thursday Jul 02, 2020 03:38 pm

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When Ifeoma Ozoma started her job at Pinterest, she thought she would be building the public policy team from the ground up with her manager as a partner. But soon after, she discovered that she was being paid at the second-to-lowest level based on her job family's "level chart." Her leveling seemed shockingly low given that she was running half of the company's global public policy, especially in comparison to her manager, who was paid at the highest level. When Pinterest refused to correct her level, Ozoma filed a complaint with California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing for pay discrimination.

In June, Ozoma, who is Black, went public after quitting the company. Her allegations, along with that of her colleague Aerica Shimizu Banks, have illuminated an insidious hiring practice in Silicon Valley: that women and people of color tend to be hired at lower levels than white men, even if they are doing substantially similar work or they have the same experience and education. Being misleveled can mean the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your career. “The problem is, you never catch up,” says Jim Finberg, an attorney at Altshuler Berzon who is representing female employees in a class action pay discrimination lawsuit at Oracle and in a pay discrimination lawsuit against Google.

Read more about Ozoma and Banks's story and how it fits into one of Silicon Valley's hidden hiring problems here.

—Katharine Schwab

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