According to internal data, salaries for the same job at Twitter can vary by as much as 225 percent depending on where employees work.
The social media giant’s Salary Range Dashboard shows employees how much their colleagues are making in the same roles in different offices around the world.
The leaked data shows that US employees are paid far better than their counterparts in other countries.
For example, Legal Counsel Directors in a Level 8 position can earn a maximum of $338,000 in New York but only $203,000 in the UK.
Curation Leads, a Tier 6 role, earn up to $226,000 in San Francisco but $149,000 in Australia and $65,000 in Mexico.
Level 3 Data Specialists take home $51,000 in the UK but only $15,600 in Ghana.
According to internal data, salaries for the same job at Twitter can vary by as much as 225 percent depending on where employees work
A non-US Twitter contributor told Input, which reviewed the data: “A manager in the UK is paid less than someone he would manage in the US and of course offices outside the UK and US are terribly paid. ‘
The data was marked “Twitter confidential”. For internal use only. Do not distribute” and is current as of April 2022.
The numbers have reportedly prompted some Twitter employees to consider their future at the company.
They say pay issues were their main concern because of Elon Musk’s aborted takeover.
A staffer said, “Elon feels kind of like an annoyance.”
Due to Twitter’s global structure, employees will work at the same level but with vastly different salaries, as they are aware of the huge differences.
Staff claim they raised it with bosses but they have ignored their complaints.
The numbers have reportedly prompted some Twitter employees to consider their future at the company (pictured: San Francisco headquarters).
Another non-US Twitter employee said, “The company released the salary dashboard with the caveat that they would do so for the sake of transparency, but with no intention of changing the wide pay gap.”
They said the company attributed the difference to the average salary in each region rather than the cost of living.
Disgruntled employees also say that US employees are the ones who make the rules, and they’re the ones who benefit most from them.
A Twitter spokesperson told Input: “Twitter regularly evaluates compensation in each market where our employees are based to ensure we pay fairly and remain competitive in the market.
‘Each role’s compensation is location dependent and our approach ensures we are competitive against local market practices.’
The leak comes as Twitter faces a pivotal moment with Musk leading a lawsuit after withdrawing from a $44 billion takeover deal.
Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk lost his battle to delay Twitter’s lawsuit against him when a Delaware judge on Tuesday ordered an October trial
Tesla’s CEO yesterday lost his fight to delay the case, and a Delaware judge on Tuesday set an October trial, citing the “cloud of uncertainty” over the social media company.
Twitter had asked for an expedited trial in September, while Musk’s team requested it wait until early next year because of the complexity of the case.
“A delay threatens irreparable damage,” said Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, the chief justice of the Delaware Court of Chancery, which hears many high-profile business disputes. “The longer the delay, the greater the risk.”
Regarding Musk’s team’s request for a later date, McCormick said they underestimated the Delaware court’s ability to “move complex litigation quickly.”
Twitter is trying to force the billionaire to follow through on his April promise to buy the social media giant for $44 billion — and the company wants it done quickly because it says the ongoing dispute is hurting its business.
Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery Kathaleen McCormick scheduled a trial in October, citing the “cloud of uncertainty” over the social media company after Musk pulled out of a purchase agreement
Musk, the world’s richest man, promised to pay $54.20 a share for Twitter, but told the company in July he wanted out of the deal.
‘It’s attempted sabotage. He’s doing his best to bring Twitter down,” said attorney William Savitt, who represents Twitter before McCormick Tuesday. The hearing took place virtually after McCormick said she had tested positive for COVID-19.
Musk has claimed the company failed to provide adequate information about the number of fake or “spam bot” Twitter accounts and that it breached its obligations under the deal by firing top executives and a significant laid off a number of employees.
Musk’s team expects more information about the bot numbers to be revealed during the preliminary hearing of the court case when both sides are required to present evidence.
Twitter argues that Musk’s reasons for pulling out are just a cover for the buyer’s remorse after he agreed to pay 38 percent above Twitter’s share price just before the stock market tumbled and electric car maker Tesla, where most of Musk’s personal wealth resides, lost more than $100 billion of its value.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, earlier this month
Twitter filed the lawsuit (above) in Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday and looks forward to the trial expected to begin in October
The lawsuit was a widely anticipated move after Musk announced his intention to pull out of the April 25 merger agreement (file photo).
Savitt said the controversial merger agreement and Musk’s tweets disparaging the company hurt the business and questioned Musk’s request for a delayed trial, asking “whether the real plan is to waste time.”
“He expects to wriggle out of the contract he signed,” Savitt said.
But the idea that Tesla’s CEO is trying to harm Twitter is “absurd”. He has no interest in harming the company,” Musk attorney Andrew Rossman said, noting that he is Twitter’s second-largest shareholder with a “far larger stake” than the company’s entire board.
Savitt emphasized the importance of an accelerated testing phase beginning in September to allow Twitter to make key business decisions affecting everything from employee retention to supplier and customer relationships.
Rossman said more time was needed because it was “one of the largest take-private deals in history” involving a “company that has a massive amount of data that needs to be analyzed.” Billions of actions on their platform need to be analyzed.’