Men make 37% more than women at Trump White House, economist says (gender pay gap)

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Men make 37% more than women at Trump White House, economist says

http://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/07/05/pay-gap-white-house-37-economist-says/452858001/


Jessica Estepa , USA TODAY Published 1:55 p.m. MT July 5, 2017 | Updated 6:52 a.m. MT July 6, 2017


Women working for the Trump administration make nearly 37% less than male White House employees. Angeli Kakade (@angelikakade) has the story. Buzz60

Women working for the Trump White House make much less than their male counterparts, according to an analysis of their median salaries from an economist.

Mark Perry, a scholar at conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, said the median salary of women working in the White House is $72,650, whereas the median salary for men is $115,000. That amounts to a gender gap of nearly 37% – or, in other words, female staffers earn 63.2 cents for every $1 their male counterparts earn.

Perry took issue with media reports about the White House pay gap that compared the average, or mean, salaries of men and women in the White House, which he said actually underestimates the pay gap. If you analyze salaries using the mean, women would make $84,500, while men bring in $105,000, resulting in a pay gap of about 20%.

"If you report gender differences in median earnings at the national level, then shouldn’t you report differences in median earnings at the Trump White House?" Perry wrote.

According to the Pew Research Center, the pay gap has narrowed since 1980. Its analysis of median earnings in 2015 found that women make 83% of what men make.

Perry's analysis, along with the media reports he criticized, are based on the White House's annual report of the salaries and titles of its staff, which was released on Friday.

Of the top 101 paid officials at the White House, nearly three-quarters of them were men, he wrote.

Despite taking issue with the disparity with the media reports versus his own analysis, Perry said he couldn't criticize President Trump for the gap itself – because he didn't believe the president had made an issue of it, unlike his predecessor, Barack Obama:..........................








White House gender pay gap more than triples under Trump



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/05/white-house-gender-pay-gap-more-than-triples-under-trump/?utm_term=.d2ae58fcc677

By Christopher Ingraham July 5 at 12:38 PM
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The median female White House employee is drawing a salary of $72,650 in 2017, compared to the median male salary of $115,000. “The typical female staffer in Trump's White House earns 63.2 cents per $1 earned by a typical male staffer,” Perry writes.

The 37 percent gender pay gap in President Trump's White House is more than double the 17 percent gender pay gap nationally. According to the Pew Research center, the Trump White House gender gap is wider than the national gender pay gap stood in 1980.







Other news outlets have reported smaller Trump White House pay gaps. But those outlets calculated the pay gap using average, rather than median salaries. Averages are often skewed by outliers at the high and low ends of the income spectrum, making them less reliable for understanding what a “typical” worker makes.

“To be as statistically accurate as possible, almost all reports on pay differences by gender compare median wages, income, or salaries and not differences in average (mean) pay,” Perry writes.

Trump's gender pay gap is also up sharply from the 11 percent gender pay gap in the last year of the Obama White House, according to Perry's calculations. In President Barack Obama's first year, the gender pay gap was about 16 percent, according to an earlier Wonkblog analysis. It peaked at 18 percent in 2014.

The current Trump pay gap is considerably higher than the pay gap observed in any White House going back to 2003, according to an earlier Wonkblog analysis......................................

Perry's 2017 analysis excludes three staffers, including the president's daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who are not being paid for their work at the White House..............................