Female tech leaders out-earn males for the first time - recruiter

Odgers Berndtson claims women have broadly closed the salary gap, but are still under-represented in the tech industry

Female tech execs out-earned their male counterparts for the first time in 2018, according to recruitment firm Odgers Berndtson.

A study of almost nearly 1,000 job searches, starting in 2015, found that female tech leaders doubled their salary, to £330,000.

This was from £122,000 in 2013, which was less than half the male average salary at the time.

Mike Drew, head of global tech practices at Odgers Berndtson, said: "We are delighted with the progress made over the past five years for women in top commercial roles with global technology companies.

"We hope this is just the start of far greater diversity, which our mentoring initiative aims to accelerate."

Odgers Berndtson said that the disparity between male and female salaries has "almost disappeared" over the last five years.

The firm said that male execs still dominate the highest-paid jobs in the industry.

However, it said that the number of women placed in top roles - including CIO and CTO - almost doubled from nine per cent to 17 per cent between 2015 and 2018.

The number of female candidates placed into leadership positions doubled from 11 per cent to 20 per cent over the same period.