Adobe achieves gender pay parity in India

Adobe has achieved pay parity in India, closing the wage gap between its male and female employees, an important milestone in the company’s ongoing efforts to create an innovative and productive work environment for all employees.

In December 2017, Adobe had announced that it had achieved equal pay in the US and committed to reaching pay parity in India by early 2018.

“At Adobe, our goal has always been to foster a diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace that fuels innovation and creativity, so all employees feel equally valued and respected. India has the second largest employee base for Adobe outside of the US, and we see reaching pay parity between men and women as an important milestone in our commitment towards building a work culture that thrives on equal growth opportunities for all,” said Donna Morris, Executive Vice President, Customer & Employee Experience, Adobe. Over the past year, Adobe undertook a review of its job structure and analysed its compensation practices, and made adjustments to its existing people practices, including the use of gender-neutral job descriptions and targeted training to identify unconscious bias. Adobe India has also discontinued the practice of using a candidate’s prior remuneration to determine the starting salary offered, an important step to help counter the gender wage gap that candidates may have experienced in prior jobs. — TNS