4. Pay equity is healthy; raw gap is composition

The raw company-wide median pay gap is 2.1% in men's favour which is well below typical external benchmarks of 15–20% raw. Within the Production department controlled by position and tenure, women earn the same as or slightly more than men at the Technician levels where 86% of Production sits.

The composition effect

The raw 2.1% gap arises from representation, not unequal pay. Men are slightly over-represented in Production Manager (57% of 14) and hold the single Director of Operations role ($170,500).

The controlled view

Within position × tenure × sex, cells with n≥3:

The right framing splits the question into equity within role (healthy) and representation across roles (a small skew worth monitoring). Reporting the raw 2.1% gap alone would mislead in both directions.