In the fourth quarter of 2018, VMG conducted its first Pay Equity Study. The analysis was conducted by an independent statistician to ensure a fair and unbiased process. As we shared with our employees in December 2018, findings from the study resulted in salary adjustments to less than 0.7% of our global workforce.
Since our first pay equity Bwin online live casinoassessment, we have made progress in our efforts to prevent gaps from arising in the first place by standardizing global pay ranges, refining the quality of our data and applying learnings to our people processes.
In the third quarter of 2020, we conducted our second Pay Equity Study, which included Refinery29. This study was also conducted by an independent statistician. The review analyzed pay (base and bonus where applicable) for employees within a specific Line of Business/Job Family/Sub-Family/Job Level across all countries with more than 30 employees. The analysis looked at pay by gender in all countries and pay by race in the US. For countries with bwin live casino onlinesmall employee populations, where statistical analysis could not be run, the Compensation Team conducted an internal salary review of pay by gender and job level.
Ensuring pay equity and a continued bias-free and fair approach to pay is an ongoing process, but we are pleased that we are making progress. Each time we conduct a pay analysis, we learn something new that helps us continue to improve in every aspect of the employee journey from recruitment to performance management to career development. We will continue to evaluate our workforce practices on an ongoing basis in order to advance and sustain equity across our global teams.
Data is as of October bwin live casino games1st 2020. Analysis includes all active regular employees and excludes temporary, contingent/contract workers, freelancers and interns/apprentices. BIPOC employees are those that have self-identified in the US as American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Two or More Races.