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It’s becoming more urgent for companies to take action on pay equity. This shift is driven by new legislation and by increased awareness on the part of both consumers and employees. You can begin your journey by collecting employee data, grouping similar employees, and running a pay equity analysis. This article tells you how.

People analytics tools have the potential to improve pay equity, yet they can also deepen existing bias. This article outlines a four-step process to help organizations avoid this pitfall and become bias-aware.

On December 6th 2022, PayAnalytics founder David Anderson will be giving a virtual presentation at the Algorithms, leadership, and work environment conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference is arranged in collaboration between The ADD-project, the Danish union HK, the Danish union IDA – Ingeniørforeningen and the government funded data-ethical council, Dataetisk Råd.

At PayAnalytics, we often talk about equal pay for work of equal value. Canada’s Pay Equity Act, implemented August 2021, takes a unique approach to achieving this objective. Typically, pay equity requirements focus on how men and women doing similar jobs are paid, but Canada now focuses on the value of the job to the employer.

Allianz, a global insurance company based in Germany, won the first prize in the 2022 German HR Management Prizes (Personalwirtschaftspreis) in the HR Tech and Digital category for its global approach to closing the equal pay gap globally.

Last week, our founders David Anderson and Margret Bjarnadottir presented their academic work at the WorldatWork Workplace Equity Forum 2022 in Austin, Texas.

We are very excited to announce that PayAnalytics has won the Nordic Fintech Impact Award! The win was announced on September 27 during this year’s annual Nordic Fintech Week.

Two of our founders, Margret Bjarnadottir and David Anderson, will speak at WorldatWork's conference this October in Austin, Texas. The Workplace Equity Forum '22 will feature speakers offering new perspectives on how to think about diversity, equity, and inclusion.

RUV, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, has utilized the findings from their pay equity analyses to identify and tackle particular issues contributing to the gender pay gap. PayAnalytics is highlighted in EBU's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Casebook.

"With the right tools, supported with the right data, we can bring about workplace transformation and pay equity."

In the latest issue of Dynamic Magazine, our founder Margrét shares valuable insights for leaders using data analytics or AI on their pay equity journeys.

In a recent blog post for the German HR magazine Trend Report, PayAnalytics Co-founder Margrét Bjarnadóttir explained how important it is to recognize the limitation of AI-based HR tools when making important decisions about hiring, compensation, promotions, and training opportunities. Even when workplaces do strive for equity, their data can still reflect historical biases and discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, gender, and class. Hence, to improve pay equity, companies need to find the right tools, identify where there are potential biases, and take the necessary steps to eliminate those biases.

Margret, our co-founder, Dr. Marie Louise Sunde, Founder and CEO of Equality Check, and Tuula Rytila, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Digital Stores had an inspiring discussion on a panel on gender equity at the Nordic Innovation Summit two weeks ago. The panel was called "The Scandinavian DEI Paradox—Not So Paradoxical?" referring to the fact that while the Nordics consistently score at the top of every equality scale, women are still underrepresented on boards and in top management.