White House gender pay gap more than triples

per $1 earned by a typical ages are often skewed by male staffer,” Perry writes. outliers at the high and low

The 37 percent gender ends of the income spec- The pay gap between male pay gap in Trump’s White trum, making them less reli- and female White House House is more than double able for understanding what staffers has more than tripled the 17 percent gender pay a “typical” worker makes. in the first year of the Trump gap nationally. According Trump’s gender pay gap administration, according to the Pew Research cen- is also up sharply from the to an analysis by economist ter, the Trump White House 11 percent gender pay gap in Mark Perry of the American gender gap is wider than the last year of the Obama Enterprise Institute. the national gender pay gap White House.

The median female White stood in 1980. In Obama’s first year, the House employee is drawing Other news outlets have gender pay gap was about a salary of $72,650 in 2017, reported smaller Trump 16 percent, according to an compared to the median male White House pay gaps. But earlier Wonkblog analysis. It salary of $115,000. “The typi- those outlets calculated the peaked at 18 percent in 2014. cal female staffer in Trump’s pay gap using average, rather The current Trump pay White House earns 63.2 cents than median salaries. Aver- 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.

Perry notes that the highest-paid staffers in the Trump White House are primarily men: nearly 74 percent of the top 23 staffers are male. In the Obama White House of 2015, only 52 percent of the highest-paid staffers were men.