Yes, women make less money than men for the same work. And no, the Washington area’s reliance on government employment and contractors does not close that gap.
The District’s Office of Revenue Analysis crunched the numbers for us and found— spoiler alert — the gender gap exists pretty much across the D.C. workforce.
While women made up about 48 percent of the D.C. workforce, they received about 42 percent of the wages, according to the study. The average salary for women over the age of 21 was $71,000 in 2014, compared with about $90,000 for men during that same time.
The gap is widest for women at for-profit businesses at 76 percent of a man’s paycheck. That shrinks to 85 percent at federal government agencies.
But across most industries, professions and age groups, women fared worse than their male counterparts did. For women over 65 years in the nonprofit space, their pay was just 46 percent of what a similarly situated man made.
The study does not come to any conclusions as…
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