by: Tyler Frasher
According to a UCSF led study, on average, male registered nurses make more than $5000 more than females amongst most settings, specialty areas, and positions. The research also showed that this earnings gap has not improved throughout the past three decades.
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 has narrowed the male-female salary gap in many occupations. However, it is still present in nursing which happens to be the largest healthcare occupation. In fact, approximately 2.5 million women are affected by this wage gap. Researchers used data from the last six quadrennial National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN) from 1988-2008. The American Community Survey was also used to provide data to support the claim. It also helped establish that gender-based unadjusted salary differences were not limited to just the national sample.
Both surveys showed that the unadjusted salaries of males were greater than that of the females by an average of $10,000 and their adjusted salaries were on average $5,148 more.
This salary gap affects most specialties and positions. Orthopedics is the only specialty that is unaffected, however, the gap is $7,678 for ambulatory care, $3,873 for hospital settings, $3,792 for chronic care and $6,034 for cardiology. This difference in wages is also dependent upon the position held. The difference ranges from $3,956 for middle management to $17,290 for nurse anesthetists. Ulrike Muench, the lead author, says that over the course of a 30-year career, female RN's will have earned about $155,000 less than male RNs using the adjusted earnings gap and $300,000 less using the unadjusted gap.
Sources:
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/03/124266/male-registered-nurses-make-thousands-more-salary-female-counterparts
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