Our employees are fundamental to delivering on our mission to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. Our goal is to attract, develop, and retain highly-skilled talent with a significant focus on a diverse workforce operating in an equitable and inclusive environment.
We are committed to pay equity, regardless of gender, race, or ethnicity. With the help of an independent compensation consultant, we conduct pay equity studies every other year, and we act on the results from those studies and work to address outliers in pay.
We are a global business, made up of more than 140 different nationalities, with headquarters and offices all over the world. As of December 31, 2023, approximately 47% of our employees were women, approximately 32% of our leadership (which includes vice presidents and above for all brands except Booking.com, which includes senior directors and above due to a greater number of employees) were women, and approximately 26% of our technology positions were filled by women.
The EEO-1 data disclosed below includes the U.S. market only, which represents approximately 13% of our global workforce as of December 31, 2023. At this time, we are sharing U.S. EEO-1 data, as the U.S. is one of the few countries where we are permitted to collect such data. While a significant percentage of our workforce is located in jurisdictions that may present challenges to tracking employee racial or ethnic demographics for legal reasons, we seek other ways to assess our employees’ experience of inclusion.
This is a required format for EEO-1 data reporting, and the data disclosed in this table includes the U.S. market only as of 12.31.23, which makes up approximately 13% of our global workforce.