Gender Wage Gap

"The average gender wage gap between women and men working in similar positions (with comparable roles, working hours, education, and work experience) in Germany is ~6%. At Zalando, the wage gap is only 1%. This is thanks to a clearly structured compensation promise that we have made to our employees. It was developed through external benchmarking regarding employee roles and internal adjustments based on career advancement. This allowed us to drive a high degree of fairness in outcomes and mitigate some of our potential biases. With a gender wage gap of only 1%, women earn 0.99 euro for every one euro earned by men for a similar job.

When comparing women and men independent of their roles, the wage gap amounts to ~22% (vs ~21% in Germany), which is largely explained by the fact that Zalando currently employs more men than women in senior positions and tech job families, which receive higher compensation. We have set ourselves clear goals to further close that gap in the future."

Wage gap = 22%

i.e. women to men's pay ratio is 0.22:1 or 78% to 100%.