Even the 12 best jobs in tech have terrible gender and race wage gaps

The gender wage gap is alive in tech.
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Even the 12 best jobs in tech have terrible gender and race wage gaps
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The tech industry likes to make lists: the jobs that pay the most, the best companies to work for, the companies that pay the most.

Despite all the conversation surrounding diversity and discrimination in Silicon Valley, those lists rarely account for the different results employees actually encounter based on their identities.

Comparably has a new list out that breaks down exactly what employees in the tech industry are making based on gender and race.

The jobs site analyzed anonymized salary records from 30,000 workers in its database submitted between March 2016 and August 2017. Then the site found the average salaries for each role and the average salaries for each role by race and gender.

Across industries, women earn about 80 cents for every man's dollar. Black women earn 67 cents for that dollar and Hispanic women earn about 60 cents.

In the tech industry, the gender wage gap is worst for young women. And even though women working in tech are making more money overall, they're still making less than their male peers.

Here's how those numbers break down for some of the most common titles in Silicon Valley and the rest of the tech industry:

Average Salaries by Gender

Architect Women: $140,827 Men: $144,074

Developer Women: $103,176 Men: $102,360

DevOps Women: $107,663 Men: $115,923

Director of Marketing Women: $137,555 Men: $146,352

Director of Product Women: $169,299 Men: $177,676

IT Manager Women: $113,029 Men: $110,815

Lead Engineer Women: $124,540 Men: $134,292

Product Manager Women: $109,133 Men: $116,935

Project Manager Women: $101,937 Men: $106,046

Sales Engineer Women: $124,898 Men: $144,116

Sales Manager Women: $92,422 Men: $122,186

Sales Rep Women: $93,000 Men: $114,616

Average Salaries by Ethnicity

Architect African-American: $116,487 Hispanic/Latino: $146,532 Asian/Pacific Islander: $149,062 White: $142,914

Developer African-American: $93,654 Hispanic/Latino: $98,891 Asian/Pacific Islander: $115,097 White: $96,850

DevOps African-American: $108,058 Hispanic/Latino: $111,620 Asian/Pacific Islander: $118,518 White: $114,342

Director of Marketing African-American: $128,160 Hispanic/Latino: $131,482 Asian/Pacific Islander: $165,271 White: $138,023

Director of Product African-American: $159,707 Hispanic/Latino: $160,380 Asian/Pacific Islander: $189,519 White: $171,864

IT Manager African-American: $100,320 Hispanic/Latino: $104,703 Asian/Pacific Islander: $125,746 White: $108,982

Lead Engineer African-American: $128,424 Hispanic/Latino: $131,077 Asian/Pacific Islander: $140,784 White: $131,443

Product Manager African-American: $116,016 Hispanic/Latino: $115,280 Asian/Pacific Islander: $123,868 White: $112,125

Project Manager African-American: $99,209 Hispanic/Latino: $102,013 Asian/Pacific Islander: $114,937 White: $103,084

Sales Engineer African-American: $134,995 Hispanic/Latino: $126,461 Asian/Pacific Islander: $147,025 White: $142,765

Sales Manager African-American: $76,318 Hispanic/Latino: $105,506 Asian/Pacific Islander: $121,777 White: $118,628

Sales Rep African-American: $82,560 Hispanic/Latino: $91,385 Asian/Pacific Islander: $115,487 White: $115,835

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Emma Hinchliffe

Emma Hinchliffe is a business reporter at Mashable. Before joining Mashable, she covered business and metro news at the Houston Chronicle.

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