Pay gap between male and female registered nurses has not narrowed
An analysis of the trends in salaries of registered nurses (RNs) in the United States from 1988 through 2013 finds that male RNs outearned female RNs across settings, specialties, and positions, with no narrowing of the pay gap over time, according to a study in the March 24/31 issue of JAMA.
Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, the male-female salary gap has narrowed in many occupations. Yet pay inequality persists for certain occupations, including medicine and nursing. Studies have documented higher salaries for male registered nurses, although analyses have not considered employment factors that could explain salary differences and have not been based on recent data, according to background information in the article.
Ulrike Muench, Jody Sindelar, Susan H. Busch, Peter I. Buerhaus. Salary Differences Between Male and Female Registered Nurses in the United States. JAMA, 2015; 313 (12): 1265 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.1487
No one should be surprised that male CRNAs make a crapton more (because bullshit), but I am confused by the staff nurse discrepancy. Education/management/admin jobs are all salaried, while staff RNs are frequently hourly. I’ve never worked in a hospital where one could negotiate their RN pay. In a union hospital it would not be possible, and even in an at-will employment one there’s a base salary, a set shift differential and set experience pay, so what gives? Did they look at salaries or take home pay? There just doesn’t seem to be a mechanism for male RNs to just get *offered* more money (unless there’s some top secret thing going on like when Eddie Murphy pretended to go undercover as a white guy and goes to the bank and is just handed a bunch of money etc) , and there’s not a lot of room for negotiating salary - if any, but if there were it wouldn’t surprise me that guys would come out top in that regard.
I’m puzzled. Of course it’s impossible to READ the damned JAMA article because it’s behind a membership paywall like all medical research papers, which is one of the reasons I hate news articles about research.
It’s entirely possible they didn’t take overtime hours, weekend differentials, experience pay, advanced certificate or baccalaureate bonuses into account. Sometimes research is crap.
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