Over the last couple of months, we’ve been revealing insights from our sister publication Total Retail’s first ever Salary Benchmark Report. The report features salary and benefits data from Total Retail’s audience of retail executives from organizations of all sizes and product verticals. The data was analyzed based upon a number of variables, including gender, age, experience, title, education level, company size (measured by annual revenue), retail vertical and geographic region. In addition to salary data, the study reveals retail executives’ thoughts on career growth opportunities as well as how fairly they feel they’re being compensated.

The chart below shows retail execs’ beliefs on their company’s compensation transparency, broken down by gender. (Click on the chart for an expanded view.)

This chart examines how the two genders compare against each other in how they view compensation transparency. The data shows that men, in general, believe that their companies are more transparent about employee compensation than women do. For example, of the respondents that said their companies were very transparent about compensation, 60 percent were men vs. 40 percent were women. Therefore, it makes sense that of the respondents that said their companies weren’t transparent at all about compensation, 55 percent were women compared to 45 percent that were men.

Total Retail’s Salary Benchmark Report was produced under the direction of Nathan Safran, director of research at NAPCO Media, parent company of the Women in Retail Leadership Circle. You can download the Salary Benchmark Report here. We hope you do!