[fallingknife]

> namely $1,353,052 in back pay and interest to 2,565 female employees in engineering positions subject to pay discrimination; and $1,232,000 in back pay and interest to 1,757 female and 1,219 Asian applicants for software engineering positions not hired.

So that's 2.585M / 5541 = $467 per employee. Assuming an average comp of $250K, that's a 0.2% difference. How can that be determined to be discrimination? Is that even a statistically significant difference?

[worker767424]

How does the Department of Labor even make this claim when the numbers are likely within the error bars?

Not that Google would care to fight this. For Google, $1.3M is like getting back a Canadian quarter in change.

[ocdtrekkie]

It's very doubtful this settlement truly entails paying everyone their actual lost wages. The term "settlement" indicates some sort of agreed upon terms.

[worker767424]

I'm not even sure what the point was when the amount is so low.

[jjulius]

Preventing it from recurring.

[worker767424]

Still seems cheap.

[advisedwang]

That is the settlement amount. It's possible that the actual pay gap was much larger.