JetBlue only major US airline achieving pay equity for executive women

This a 2022 report. It is the most current diverse pay gap report for US airlines available on Spendwell.

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Corporations paying typically underrepresented executives on par with other executives, rank higher.

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JetBlue

JetBlue pays its highest earning executive women at or above what its highest earning executive men make.

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Over the last 6 year period, on average, JetBlue paid its top-earning executive women about $1,944,526.00 annually. This works out to about 105.96% of what it paid its top-earning executive men who earned about $1,835,084.18 over the same time period.

A corporation is ranked here by how much it pays historically underrepresented groups as compared to historically dominant groups. These underrepresented groups currently consist of women only. See the Methodology section of this report for more information about how Spendwell develops this ranking and how additional underrepresented groups will be included in the future.

Southwest Airlines

On average, Southwest Airlines pays its highest-paid executive women about 69% of what it pays its highest-paid executive men.

2/10

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Over the last 6 year period, on average, Southwest Airlines paid its top-earning executive women about $3,414,216.50 annually. This works out to about 68.72% of what it paid its top-earning executive men who earned about $4,968,189.89 over the same time period.

American Airlines

On average, American Airlines pays its highest-paid executive women about 54% of what it pays its highest-paid executive men.

3/10

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Over the last 6 year period, on average, American Airlines paid its top-earning executive women about $4,195,736.33 annually. This works out to about 54.16% of what it paid its top-earning executive men who earned about $7,746,531.94 over the same time period.

United Airlines

On average, United Airlines pays its highest-paid executive women about 53% of what it pays its highest-paid executive men.

4/10

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Over the last 6 year period, on average, United Airlines paid its top-earning executive women about $4,310,279.00 annually. This works out to about 53.23% of what it paid its top-earning executive men who earned about $8,097,429.53 over the same time period.

Delta Air Lines

Delta Air Lines has no women among its highest-paid executives and therefore pays its executive women 100% less than executive men.

5/10(tied)

DETAILS

Because Delta Air Lines has no women among its highest-paid executives, Spendwell considers it to have paid executive women 0% of what it has paid executive men. This is the poorest score a company can achieve in this ranking. While women are excluded from its highest-paid executives, Delta Air Lines did pay its executive men an average of $9,384,843.20 over the last six-year period.

Alaska Airlines

Alaska Airlines has no women among its highest-paid executives and therefore pays its executive women 100% less than executive men.

5/10(tied)

DETAILS

Because Alaska Airlines has no women among its highest-paid executives, Spendwell considers it to have paid executive women 0% of what it has paid executive men. This is the poorest score a company can achieve in this ranking. While women are excluded from its highest-paid executives, Alaska Airlines did pay its executive men an average of $3,623,412.40 over the last six-year period.

SkyWest

SkyWest has no women among its highest-paid executives and therefore pays its executive women 100% less than executive men.

5/10(tied)

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Because SkyWest has no women among its highest-paid executives, Spendwell considers it to have paid executive women 0% of what it has paid executive men. This is the poorest score a company can achieve in this ranking. While women are excluded from its highest-paid executives, SkyWest did pay its executive men an average of $1,763,664.55 over the last six-year period.

Spirit Airlines

Spirit Airlines has no women among its highest-paid executives and therefore pays its executive women 100% less than executive men.

5/10(tied)

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Because Spirit Airlines has no women among its highest-paid executives, Spendwell considers it to have paid executive women 0% of what it has paid executive men. This is the poorest score a company can achieve in this ranking. While women are excluded from its highest-paid executives, Spirit Airlines did pay its executive men an average of $2,083,532.85 over the last six-year period.

Allegiant Airlines

Allegiant Airlines has no women among its highest-paid executives and therefore pays its executive women 100% less than executive men.

5/10(tied)

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Because Allegiant Airlines has no women among its highest-paid executives, Spendwell considers it to have paid executive women 0% of what it has paid executive men. This is the poorest score a company can achieve in this ranking. While women are excluded from its highest-paid executives, Allegiant Airlines did pay its executive men an average of $2,947,235.90 over the last six-year period.

Frontier Airlines

Frontier Airlines has no women among its highest-paid executives and therefore pays its executive women 100% less than executive men.

5/10(tied)

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Because Frontier Airlines has no women among its highest-paid executives, Spendwell considers it to have paid executive women 0% of what it has paid executive men. This is the poorest score a company can achieve in this ranking. While women are excluded from its highest-paid executives, Frontier Airlines did pay its executive men an average of $1,384,753.65 over the last six-year period.

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report summary

Of the 10 major airlines headquartered in the United States, only one has managed to ensure pay equity for executive women: JetBlue. Six airlines have no women at all amongst their highest earning executives. Of the 3 remaining airlines with women amongst their highest earners, women executives earn just a little more than 41% of what their male counterparts earn.

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Companies offering commercial air travel to the general public through tickets.

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Diversity Pay Gap Methodology

In the United States, a publicly traded corporation is required to annually report the total compensation packages of its highest-paid earners. At a minimum, a corporation reports the compensation packages of its 5 most well-paid executives. These reported compensation packages serve as an easily assessed data point by which corporations can be compared to one another specific to the pay gaps between historically underrepresented and historically well-represented groups. This Spendwell ranking is predicated on the values-based statement that a corporation should pay its historically underrepresented employees on par with their historically well-represented peers.

This initial diversity pay gap ranking includes only gender considerations. Gender is currently the only facet of diversity Spendwell can measure without significant risk of misrepresenting individual identities. This is because publicly accessible texts about executives use pronouns. In the future, other important facets of identity will be included in these rankings. When personal identifiers can be ethically sourced, these future facets will likely include additional underrepresented groups specific to race, ethnicity, national origin, LGBTQ+ identity and disability status.

Companies with a smaller gap between averaged, historically well-represented executive compensation and averaged, historically underrepresented executive compensation, rank higher than companies with larger gaps. In order to account for fluctuations in compensation and employee turnover, Spendwell reports on the last 5 available years of compensation reporting. This means Spendwell is currently reporting data pertaining to the top 20 compensation packages reported over the last 6 available years. In most instances, this includes the six years through the end of fiscal year 2020 - which for most companies was reported sometime during 2021.

Spendwell’s current diversity pay gap ranking looks at 2 data points derived from the reported compensation data of a corporation’s most well-paid executives: average pay and gender (determined indirectly through pronouns used in various written reports about executives). This data reveals the average compensation of executive men and women, which is then compared as described above. Women in this instance, being the historically underrepresented group in this specific comparative pairing.

In some reporting instances, Spendwell’s rankings will include private corporations with no current compensation figures publicly available, nor are the names and titles of the company's most well-compensated employees available. These corporations might be included in a report, but will be listed as not ranked unless they have voluntarily published necessary information and Spendwell has been made aware of its publication. All ranked corporations are ranked based on the previously mentioned data reported to the SEC through end-of-year or annual reports, which can be accessed through the SEC’s Edgar search tool here:

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Ranking

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Corporations paying typically underrepresented executives on par with other executives, rank higher.

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JetBlue

JetBlue pays its highest earning executive women at or above what its highest earning executive men make.

1/10

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Southwest Airlines

On average, Southwest Airlines pays its highest-paid executive women about 69% of what it pays its highest-paid executive men.

2/10

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American Airlines

On average, American Airlines pays its highest-paid executive women about 54% of what it pays its highest-paid executive men.

3/10

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United Airlines

On average, United Airlines pays its highest-paid executive women about 53% of what it pays its highest-paid executive men.

4/10

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Delta Air Lines

Delta Air Lines has no women among its highest-paid executives and therefore pays its executive women 100% less than executive men.

5/10(tied)

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Alaska Airlines

Alaska Airlines has no women among its highest-paid executives and therefore pays its executive women 100% less than executive men.

5/10(tied)

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SkyWest

SkyWest has no women among its highest-paid executives and therefore pays its executive women 100% less than executive men.

5/10(tied)

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Spirit Airlines

Spirit Airlines has no women among its highest-paid executives and therefore pays its executive women 100% less than executive men.

5/10(tied)

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Allegiant Airlines

Allegiant Airlines has no women among its highest-paid executives and therefore pays its executive women 100% less than executive men.

5/10(tied)

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Frontier Airlines

Frontier Airlines has no women among its highest-paid executives and therefore pays its executive women 100% less than executive men.

5/10(tied)

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This report is based on data collected through 2022-04-11.

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