In analyses of the gender pay gap, job analysis, and ONET don’t get a lot of respect, but they should

To demonstrate the usefulness of O*NET as a tool that can be used to argue the similarity of skills needed for different jobs, an example of a difference in pay of a sales manager and a marketing manager will be used. According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2020), sales managers make an average of $132,290, whereas marketing managers make an average of $141,490. [...]O*NET rates the Specific Vocation Preparation (SVP) necessary for the job in which SVP is defined as “the amount of lapsed time required by a typical worker to learn the techniques, acquire the information, and develop the facility needed for average performance in a specific job-worker situation” (https://www.onetonline.org/help/online/svp). Using this data, although there are slight differences in the importance ratings for each of these categories, the two jobs require very similar knowledge to be performed well. [...]if the male employee in Company X and the female employee in Company X are being paid differently, this data could be used to indicate that their jobs should be paid similarly.