2015/03/02

These 20 jobs have the biggest gender pay gaps

  • by 
    •  

    • Patricia Arquette’s speech at the Oscars reignited the debate over the gender pay gap. Fortune crunched the numbers and found some surprises.

    When, during her acceptance speech for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Patricia Arquette said, “It’s our [women’s] time to have wage equality, once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America,” the crowd went wild. Then the controversy kicked in, as people dissected her language for nuance, the way they might parse the State of the Union.
    But, here are some facts: The median earnings of women still trail those of men, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Overall, women earn 82.1% of what men do, and the pay gap widens as women get older and enter the child-bearing years. While young women aged 16 to 24 earn 92% of men that age, women aged 25 to 54 earn just 81% of their male counterparts.
    Women’s wages, however, have shown some improvement. At every level of education, the boost to women’s weekly earnings has significantly outpaced those of men.
    Gender gap graph
    And overall, the gender pay gap has been narrowing. In 1979, women made less than 65 percent of what men did, but as you can see from this graph, women are catching up, albeit slowly.
    Gender gap graph
    Still, there remains a significant gender pay gap, and some fields have bigger gaps than others. Fortune examined data from the BLS Current Population Surveyand compared median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by occupation and gender, excluding occupations that lacked gender-specific data, and sorted to find the specific job types in which the gender pay gap was largest.
    These are the 20 with the biggest gaps. Interestingly, half of them are white-collar jobs, including the one with the biggest pay gap.
    What’s the cause? Countless studies have been devoted to parsing the data. A variety of explanations have been posited, ranging from the choices that women make — to work fewer hours, choose lower-paying professions — to women’s negotiating skills to employers’ tendency to “disproportionately reward” long hours in offices, which tends to penalize women with care-giving responsibilities.
    While the debate is likely to rage on, it’s clear that gender-based pay gaps exist in most occupations. Here are the 20 jobs that have the biggest gender wage gaps.
    Photograph by Jean-Sebastien Evrard — AFP/Getty Images

    Personal Financial Advisors

    Wage gap: 61.3%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $1,004
    Men's median weekly earnings: $1,637

    Physicians and surgeons

    Wage gap: 62.2%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $1,246
    Men's median weekly earnings: $2,002

    Securities, commodities, and financial service sales agents

    Wage gap: 65.1%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $883
    Men's median weekly earnings: $1,356

    Financial managers

    Wage gap: 67.4%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $1,127
    Men's median weekly earnings: $1,671

    First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers

    Wage gap: 69.4%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $500
    Men's median weekly earnings: $720

    Sales and related workers, all other

    Wage gap: 70%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $664
    Men's median weekly earnings: $949

    First-line supervisors of production and operating workers

    Wage gap: 70.0%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $659
    Men's median weekly earnings: $942

    Retail salespersons

    Wage gap: 70.3%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $491
    Men's median weekly earnings: $698

    Other teachers and instructors

    Wage gap: 70.5%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $772
    Men's median weekly earnings: $1,096

    Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

    Wage gap: 70.5%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $578
    Men's median weekly earnings: $820

    Marketing and sales managers

    Wage gap: 70.8%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $1,150
    Men's median weekly earnings: $1,624

    Human resource managers

    Wage gap: 71.2%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $1,300
    Men's median weekly earnings: $1,827

    Police and sheriff's patrol officers

    Wage gap: 71.2%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $743
    Men's median weekly earnings: $1,043

    Production, planning, and expediting clerks

    Wage gap: 72.1%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $738
    Men's median weekly earnings: $1,024

    Bartenders

    Wage gap: 72.4%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $459
    Men's median weekly earnings: $634

    Human resources workers

    Wage gap: 72.6%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $912
    Men's median weekly earnings: $1,257

    Recreation and fitness workers

    Wage gap: 72.8%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $521
    Men's median weekly earnings: $716

    Production workers, all other

    Wage gap: 72.8%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $492
    Men's median weekly earnings: $676

    Real estate brokers and sales agents

    Wage gap: 73.3%
    Women's median weekly earnings: $726
    Men's median weekly earnings: $991
    Publicado por en
    Etiquetas:

    No hay comentarios.:

    Publicar un comentario

    Suscribirse a: Comentarios de la entrada (Atom)