New analysis of the 2020 median salaries in the White House found a more than $33,000 pay gap between the median salary for men and women staffed under President Trump — making wage discrimination greater in the Trump administration than it is nationally.
The 19th, a news organization focused on gender and politics, reports that while the median salary for a male White House staffer is $106,000, the median salary for women is $72,700.
The staggering finding translates to women staffers making roughly 69 cents to every dollar earned by a man working for Trump — a gap that exceeds the national pay gap that sits at women earning 82 cents to the each dollar earned by men, according to Census Bureau data from 2018.
The salaries, accurate as of June 26, reflect what economists call the “raw” gender pay gap — not making adjustments to the scale for differences in experience, education, title or other factors which further complicate a long history of wage differences between men and women.
The finding comes as the President’s prominent women supporters have attempted to vouch for Trump’s record on women and have claimed that the President prizes gender equality.
In a video clip aired during the Republican National Convention last month, former Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway called the President “a champion for women.” First Lady Melania Trump also falsely claimed during her remarks that her husband had “an unprecedented number of women in leadership roles” in his administration.
In 2017, Trump rolled back an Obama-era rule requiring large companies to report gender and race pay data in a move intended to help close the wage gap through greater pay transparency.
The gap still existed, but was smaller among staffers who worked under former President Barack Obama’s administration.
In Obama’s final year, women were being paid 89 cents on the dollar, with that rate dropping to 63 cents on the dollar during the first year Trump was in office, according to an analysis by the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute.
Trump’s courtship of female voters is crucial as 2016 exit polls showed that 53 percent of the electorate was female.
The White House told the 19th that average salaries have increased by roughly 7 percent for female staffers over three years, while decreasing for male staffers by about a half-percent.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany responded to the 19th’s findings saying in a statement that the President “implements policies that empower women.” She highlighted historic low unemployment rate for women in 2019 as an example — even though historic high unemployment soars across the country amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“President Trump has taken unprecedented action to support women and girls,” McEnany contended.
I have no problem with this whatsoever. These are Republican women who support the pu**y-grabbing, serial wife-cheating president.
Also too, they should be required to wear very short skirts and bake a pie daily - for the joy and support of Republican men (I think Jesus commanded that someplace in the Bible).
Who would have thought? I’m guessing, though, that it’s pretty hard to get any woman to work there who has any kind of career and experience. Therefore, all you can get are blond dimwit Celebrity Apprentice wannabes, like Kayleigh McEnany.
Wonder what she’s paid? Probably below the median for the women, but she’s happy to take it because she so wants to be there.
In all fairness, Trump pays some women $130,000 per minute.
Yes, but Kellyanne Conway told us because she was his campaign manager in 2016, this proves he believes in equality for women.
A woman who ran an anti-woman campaign. Unfortunately a majority of white women voted for him, proving that the biggest obstacle to equality is other women.
They should just be happy they haven’t rolled back the wages to the MAGA 50’s