Talenbrium's compensation benchmarking model — drawing on salary disclosures across 2.4 million+ job postings calibrated against BLS Current Population Survey data — puts the US national gender pay gap at 16.0% on a median weekly earnings basis in 2024. That aggregate figure conceals a 21-percentage-point range from the most to least equitable states. Wyoming records a 30.1% gap. Washington D.C. records 9.2%. Talenbrium's state-level analysis maps this variation against industry composition, pay transparency legislation status, and union density — three factors that together explain the majority of cross-state variation.
Pay transparency laws covering an estimated 40% of the US workforce — California, Colorado, New York, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts — are making compensation data visible in ways that make unjustified pay disparities commercially costly even without direct enforcement action. In Europe, the EU Pay Transparency Directive's June 2026 implementation deadline is creating parallel urgency. Talenbrium's European employer postings analysis identified a 34% year-on-year increase in Compensation Equity Analyst postings across the EU in 2025.
Talenbrium's industry-level compensation benchmarking identifies financial services as the sector with the widest gender pay gap in both the US and EU. At 28.4% in the US, the gap is driven primarily by male concentration in the highest-earning asset management, investment banking, and private equity roles rather than like-for-like base salary differences. The CIPD's Pay Report 2025, which Talenbrium uses as a UK validation benchmark, finds that organisations with smaller gender pay gaps report higher female employee engagement scores and lower voluntary attrition among women — providing the business case alongside the compliance case.
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