Salesforce CEO Takes Radical Step To Pay Men And Women Equally
by The Daily Eye Team May 8 2015, 12:09 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 48 secsEqual pay for equal work isn’t typically a mantra you hear from the chief executive of a multibillion-dollar company. Yet Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is taking the radical step of reviewing employee salaries to ensure men and women are paid fairly. Benioff told The Huffington Post that he is methodically examining the pay of all 16,000 employees at his cloud-based software company to ensure pay equality. So far, Benioff said, he’s given some women raises. “I expect to be giving a lot more,” he said. He anticipates that the process will take a couple of years. “My job is to make sure that women are treated 100 percent equally at Salesforce in pay, opportunity and advancement,” he said. Though he doesn’t know what the pay gap between men and women is at Salesforce right now, “when I’m done there will be no gap.”