by Alexandra Mather, Partner at DMC Recruitment Group

DMC has recently completed our first ever salary report focused exclusively on Sales Representatives working in the Building Materials industry in Canada. There is a huge lack of this type of information in the industry, and going into this project, our goal was to provide the most accurate, detailed, and up-to-date data related to compensation of sales professionals across the Building Materials industry.

We are very proud of the results, and we were able to gather data specific by; Province, employment tenure, sector, channel and by identified gender across the country. From the results of over 1,300 Respondents, we have been able to reach several conclusions about compensation in the industry. One such conclusion which has been very confronting is just how deep the “gender” compensation inequality is within the Building Materials industry. Data indicates the following:

	Female	Male
Average base salary	66k	71k
Average compensation	27k	37k
Proportion of respondents	18%	79%

The above data equates to an average total compensation of $93,000 per year for respondents identifying as “female” which is 15% lower than their “male” counterparts. Additionally, only 18% of respondents identified themselves as “female”. The gender wage-gap has been an elevated topic in recent years, and something that you hear about quite often in a professional environment. However, to see the data revealing just how wide this gap remains through the results of our survey – it was certainly eye-opening.

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