Boston Women's Workforce Council — 100% Talent Compact and Biennial Wage-Gap Measurement

The Boston Women's Workforce Council runs the 100% Talent Compact, under which employers pledge to examine their pay data and practices and to close gender and racial wage gaps. Signers submit employee-level data, analysed on a secure multi-party-computation platform built by Boston University's Software & Application Innovation Lab, so individual employer data stays private.
The 2023 report covered 103 employers and 165,000 full-time employees. It found the Greater Boston gender wage gap fell 30%, from 30 cents to 21 cents, the first measured progress since reporting began in 2016; women's salaries rose 6% over 2021–2023, with more women reaching C-suite and management roles.
Caveats: including performance pay the gap widens to about 30 cents, men earn over three times more in performance compensation, and the racial/ethnic gap in base pay widened by 3 cents to 27 cents. A 2022 Boston Globe analysis also noted the statewide gap did not narrow after the 2016 Massachusetts Equal Pay Act, so voluntary measurement complements rather than replaces legal duties.

Read the full analysis: https://thebwwc.org/