New Report Shows Bernie Sanders' Highest-Paid Staffers Are All Dudes

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New Report Shows Bernie Sanders' Highest-Paid Staffers Are All Dudes


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-report-shows-bernie-sanders-highest-paid-staffers-are-all-dudes_us_56e993b8e4b0b25c91841ee0


But Ted Cruz's campaign takes the cake when it comes to gender pay gaps.
03/16/2016 06:05 pm ET


Taylor Pittman
Voices Staff Writer, The Huffington Post

............Joanna Rothkopf, a Jezebel staff writer, crunched the numbers from year-end reports which included payroll information obtained from the Federal Election Commission from October to December 2015. She then broke down the salaries of campaign staffers who had received at least four paychecks with a "projected annual salary" of at least $24,000. She calculated both the average salaries for men and women, and the salaries of the top 10 best-paid staffers on each campaign.

Based on her calculations....

The top 10 highest-paid staffers on Bernie Sanders' campaign are ALL men. However, looking at the campaign as a whole, women's average salaries are a little under $1,000 more than the men's salaries.
The biggest pay gap surfaced in Ted Cruz's campaign, where men earn more than $20,000 more than women do on average.
Hillary Clinton's campaign was described as "fairly equitable, with male and female staffers making essentially the same amount of money." Though, unsurprisingly, her campaign was also the only one where women outnumbered men. (Of her 10 highest-paid staffers, however, six are men and four are women.).................

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. Bro's.

[bravenak]

2. Am I surprised?

No

[Tortmaster]

3. If this surprises you, then ...

... you are the Skipper, and you've just assigned a very important task to Gilligan.

It took Senator Sanders until October to hire an outreach coordinator for Hispanic voters. That raises some questions. Did he not know that there are Hispanic voters to court? What was he doing with the 10 million dollars he banked in July?

Of course, it was a guy.

[spooky3]

8. Hahaha!

[Hekate]

15. Regarding outreach to specific communities: I think it did surprise Sanders that "one size fits all"

... doesn't fit all issues for all humanity. Even my Bernie-lovin' hubby called him a one-trick pony fairly early on.

[Surya Gayatri]

4. Well, no surprise there...it IS the Bernie Brotherhood, after all.

[DemonGoddess]

5. Not surprised

at all.

[George II]

6. In other words, "do as I say, not as I do".

[spooky3]

7. This is a perfect example of why we need EEO laws

Candidates can't say there just aren't any women qualified for these top positions. The best performing campaign has gender equity.

[Her Sister]

9. It explains so much!

It explains their campaign!

[Haveadream]

12. Yes, it does!

I would love to hear an explanation for that from Bernie. Pretty hard to defend. I would also like to know his ratio of PoC and minorities. I suspect his campaign looks quite a bit like the people who vote for him.

[ismnotwasm]

10. Yeah

Not surprised

[Rose Siding]

11. SO tone deaf

Even if it is, inexplicably, not in his heart to promote or employ capable women, how could he not know this wouldn't be an issue?

[DavidDvorkin]

13. When asked to comment on this, the senator responded

"We need a people's revolution in this country! Our politics have been corrupted by Wall Street money!"

[SharonClark]

14. Yep

[Fla Dem]

16. LOL. nt

[mcar]

17. No surprise there