Survey: U.S. women paid less in every industry
BPC Staff Nov 9, 2015 | 2:00 pm [wp-word-count-reading-time after="min read time"][wp-word-count after="words"]All Latest News, Lift IOWA
BY LIFT IOWA STAFF | @LiftIOWA
PayScale, an online crowdsourced salary database, released a study Thursday on the gender pay gap using salary data from more than 1.4 million full-time employees who completed a survey between July 2013 and July 2015. The survey asked employees about marital and family status, location, job type, industry, age, education and other factors that affect pay for men and women.
Fathers earned the highest overall median salaries at about $67,900, compared with $46,800 for married mothers. Single women with children had the lowest median salary at $38,200, according to AOL.com.
“The gender pay gap is absolutely real,” Aubrey Bach, senior editorial manager of PayScale Inc., told AOL. “Half or more of our workforce is made up of women, but we are still not progressing at the same level as men.”
While men’s salaries kept increasing until the age of 50 to 55, reaching a median salary of $75,000, the report showed women’s wages hit a plateau between 35 to 40 years old at about $49,000.
And the pay gap only gets wider as job levels get higher, reports Fast Company. According to PaysScale’s data, male executives earn as much as 6.1 percent more than women in the same roles, except between single moms and dads, who experience the largest pay gap at the manager/supervisor level.
Other key findings from the study can be downloaded here.
Trending News
