--- title: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says Company Pays Men and Women Equally description: Verifying the lack of a pay gap is difficult, however canonical: https://time.com/3525784/microsoft-ceo-pay-gap-satya-nadella/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-20T22:30:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:03:27.709Z og:title: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says Company Pays Men and Women Equally og:description: Verifying the lack of a pay gap is difficult, however og:url: https://time.com/3525784/microsoft-ceo-pay-gap-satya-nadella/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba20d29bb0de1d0a/698761e4a988cae5976a9eff/satya-nadella-microsoft1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1949 og:image:height: 1096 og:image:alt: Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Satya NadellaSpeaks At Company Event og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says Company Pays Men and Women Equally twitter:description: Verifying the lack of a pay gap is difficult, however twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba20d29bb0de1d0a/698761e4a988cae5976a9eff/satya-nadella-microsoft1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says Company Pays Men and Women Equally > Sponsored content. 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Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks to students during the Microsoft Talent India conference in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. Graham Crouch—Bloomberg/Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Oct 20, 2014 10:30 PM UTC Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who was criticized earlier this month for saying [women should not ask for raises](http://time.com/3524347/microsoft-satya-nadella-women-raises/), said Monday that [his company pays men and women equally](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/20/us-microsoft-ceo-women-idUSKCN0I926I20141020). “I checked that it is something that we are enforcing,” said Nadella, who [has apologized for the earlier remarks](http://time.com/3524347/microsoft-satya-nadella-women-raises/), at a presentation in San Francisco, Reuters reports. “We are in fact in good shape. Men and women get paid equally at Microsoft.” Nadella’s statement is difficult to verify, as Microsoft does not make its pay structure public. Nadella’s comments also seem to contradict data from the site Glassdoor, which reported — based on a very small sample of employees who voluntarily shared their salaries — that men seem to earn more than woman doing the same job. According to its figures, male senior software development engineers earn around $137,000 a year, while women with that title earn around $129,000 a year. “We have made some progress,” Nadella said during the presentation. “We have a lot more to do.” \[[_Reuters_](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/20/us-microsoft-ceo-women-idUSKCN0I926I20141020)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3525784/microsoft-ceo-pay-gap-satya-nadella/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3525784/microsoft-ceo-pay-gap-satya-nadella/"},"headline":"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says Company Pays Men and Women Equally","datePublished":"2014-10-20T22:30:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:03:27.709Z","description":"Verifying the lack of a pay gap is difficult, however","url":"https://time.com/3525784/microsoft-ceo-pay-gap-satya-nadella/","keywords":["Living","Tech","Microsoft","Satya Nadella","Companies","American Voices"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba20d29bb0de1d0a/698761e4a988cae5976a9eff/satya-nadella-microsoft1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba20d29bb0de1d0a/698761e4a988cae5976a9eff/satya-nadella-microsoft1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Satya NadellaSpeaks At Company Event","caption":"Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Satya NadellaSpeaks At Company Event","creditText":"Graham Crouch—Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3525784/microsoft-ceo-pay-gap-satya-nadella/","name":"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says Company Pays Men and Women Equally"}}]}] ```