Black workers often earn less than their white peers, but salary history bans are closing the gap.
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She holds a B.A.
Tiffany Waddell Tate, MA, is a career and style coach.
She helps demystify the job search process for new, emerging, and seasoned professionals in transition.
There is a lot of hesitancy to give someone a $30,000 to $50,000 jump.
career coach and founder and CEO of hiring platform Knac
If you were historically underpaid, you dont have to continue that cycle.
Even so, salary history bans arent a one-and-done solution to the racial wage gap.
Black women, in particular,make only 62 cents for every dollar earned by a white man.
So, what needs to be done beyond salary history bans to ensure that all employees receive fair pay?
Bias remains a major hurdle in workplaces that are run by those who are inprivileged positions.
Lets say that we have two people who are going up for the same role.
Statistically speaking, the white person will be brought in at a higher level than the Black person.
The Black person has to prove herself more.
This is something that Lopez, St Fleur, and Tate have all seen firsthand among their clients.
career coach and founder and CEO of hiring platform Knac
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They dont want an issue of, Why is this person making this and Im making that?'
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Shed also like employers to take more time to walk potential new hires through the process.
Acting as a coach with an employee could really change things.
Its not just about salary.
How long will it take for them to get there?
And what positions would they need to attain first?
Its not just about salary.
And, if they arent, make a plan to get them where they should be.
Instituting this process would help to avoid under-leveling in the first place.
One of these good-on-paper benefits is unlimited PTO.
St Fleur suspects this phenomenon could be particularly detrimental for BIPOC and Latinx employees.
But St Fleur says that workers who arent familiar with the equity process can end up shortchanged.
The reforms shouldnt stop with leave policies, adds Lopez.
[Make] sure people have good options to come back.
Just pay people what theyre worth.
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