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Global Diversity and Inclusion
Pay equity and Gender parity

Pay equity

We believe that providing equal pay for equal work is one of several enablers of a diverse and inclusive work environment. One of our compensation practices is to use a gender-neutral market-based approach tied to roles at all levels in the organization to set starting salaries and for lateral and promotional moves.

Gender parity

In 2015, Bristol Myers Squibb achieved gender parity across the entire organization and continues to see increases in the representation of women in the manager and professional categories. Upon achieving this milestone, our focus shifted to ensuring global gender parity at the executive level. We believe we are on track to achieve this goal by the end of 2022, supporting our recently announced commitment to global gender parity at the executive level.

Global executive representation by gender

Line chart showing the growth of Bristol Myers Squibb's female executive representation

Global management by level and gender

As we build representation at senior levels of our organization, we will continue to focus on the advancement of our pipeline of female talent.

Bar chart showing Bristol Myers Squibb's global management by level and gender from 2018 through 2020

Gender was not reported by the following number of employees and
therefore not represented in the charts above:
Manager 2018 – 4; 2019 – 3; 2020 – 2
Professional 2018 – 6; 2019 – 2; 2020 – 5

Gender parity

Reach parity at the executive level for women globally

Bar chart detailing Bristol Myers Squibb's gender parity goal

Black/African American Employees

Double executive representation in the U.S.

Bar chart detailing Bristol Myers Squibb's Black/African American Employees goal

Latino/Hispanic Employees

Double executive representation in the U.S.

Bar chart detailing Bristol Myers Squibb's Latino/Hispanic Employees goal

BMS workforce representation commitments

To further deepen this historical commitment to global diversity and inclusion in 2020, Bristol Myers Squibb and the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation each committed $150 million to diversity and inclusion and health equity. This includes the bold company pledge to advance leadership representation by the end of 2022 by achieving gender parity globally and doubling Black/African American and Latino/Hispanic executive representation in the U.S.

Although we have made these sustained investments, we are not where we want to be nor where we need to be. The data provided in this report is another step in reinforcing our commitment to diversity and inclusion. While some of the data does not reflect the aspiration we set for ourselves in building the workforce we desire, it provides a clear indication of where we are today and shows our areas for improvement.

Learn more:
Baseline data on these commitments can be
found in our Global Diversity & Inclusion report.

Note: all data in this section are of year-end 2020 unless otherwise indicated.

Global executive representation by gender

Global management by level and gender

Gender parity

Black/African American Employees

Latino/Hispanic Employees