Erica Baker

Erica Baker (born 1980) is an engineer and engineering manager in the San Francisco Bay Area, known for her outspoken support of diversity and inclusion. She has worked at companies including Google, Slack, and Patreon. She gained prominence in 2015 for starting an internal spreadsheet where Google employees reported their salary data, to better understand pay disparities within the company. Kara Swisher of Re/Code called Baker the "woman to watch" in a profile in C Magazine. 2Career 3Google Baker worked at Google from 2006 to May 2015, in various roles, ending with the role of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). In July 2015, after leaving Google for Slack, Baker revealed in a series of tweets that she had started an internal spreadsheet at Google for employees to disclose their salary information. Based on the spreadsheet, a number of her colleagues were able to negotiate pay raises. Baker reported that a number of her colleagues sent her peer bonuses for starting the spreadsheet, but her peer bonuses were denied by management. The spreadsheet sparked discussion on Google's pay disparities, non-transparency in pay determination, and potential gender and ethnicity differentials in pay. The spreadsheet would continue to be updated until 2017, when updated data from the spreadsheet was reported on in the New York Time