Privacy Officers Aren’t Experiencing Pay “Gender Gap": Survey

A “gender gap” doesn’t seem to exist in the privacy and data governance field, according to the International Association of Privacy Professional’s 2015 salary survey.

Women privacy officers earn about the same as men and hold similar positions of authority, IAPP researchers found following a global survey of 1,305 privacy professionals.

Gender representation is equally split, with only a $5,000 difference in U.S. median income — $130,000 for men, $125,000 for women — says the survey released June 9 at a Washington, D.C. summit co-hosted by IAPP and the Center for Democracy & Technology.

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