Posted on 04/05/2017 10:25:42 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
What a surprise.
Elizabeth Warren fancies herself a champion on the issue of equal pay for women but like many progressives, she doesn’t hold herself to the same rules she wants for others.
Brent Scher of the Washington Free Beacon did a little digging and found that the pay difference between men and women on Warren’s staff is rather problematic:
Elizabeth Warren’s Female Staffers Made 71% of Male Staffers’ Salaries in 2016
The gender pay gap in Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D., Mass.) office is nearly 10 percent wider than the national average, meaning women in the Massachusetts Democrat’s office will have to wait longer than most women across the country to recognize Equal Pay Day.
Equal Pay Day, created two decades ago by the National Committee on Pay Equity, is scheduled by using the Census Bureau annual unadjusted gender pay gap to determine how far into the next year women would have to work to match annual earnings of men. Last year’s figures, showing that women earned 79.6 percent of what men earned, put Equal Pay Day on Tuesday April 4, more than three months into the calendar year.
However, women working for Warren were paid just 71 cents for every dollar paid to men during the 2016 fiscal year, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis…
For example, Warren’s former chief of staff Mindy Myers and her male replacement Dan Geldon were not included because neither worked the full year.
Among employees employed the entire year, only one woman, Warren’s director of scheduling, earned a six-figure salary, at $100,624.88.
Five men—Warren’s director of oversight and investigations ($156,000), legislative director ($149,458), deputy chief of staff ($119,375), Massachusetts state director ($152,310), and deputy state director ($113,750)—earned more than Warren’s highest paid woman staffer in 2016.
Yesterday was “Equal Pay Day” and this is how Warren recognized it on Twitter:
#EqualPayDay isn’t a national day of celebration. It’s a national day of embarrassment.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) April 12, 2016
How perfect.
Here’s what Elizabeth Warren said last year on “Equal Pay Day” as her female staffers were earning less money than the men on her staff:
It’s almost like Warren is just using this issue as a political club. Almost.
Hat tip to Andrew Mullins:
Median Salary for Elizabeth Warren's female staffers: $52,750.
Median Salary for Elizabeth Warren's male staffers: $73,750. https://t.co/PqpAK5LCIK
— Andrew Mullins (@AndrewWMullins) April 4, 2017
Featured image via YouTube.
I’ll bet Scott Pelley will lead the CBS evening news with this.....and blame Trump.
Oh, yeah. Fauxcahontis is digging deep to find out what man is responsible for this outrage.
The evil Russians must hacked Fauxahontus's payroll files. Then, the evil Trump increased the worthless men's wampum and paid the ugly liberal squaws less.
Hey we all know with liberals its do as I say not as I do..liberals..the biggest hypocrite phonies on the planet
But she made up for it by giving them extra beads and other assorted wampum.
Their staffers’ female/male pay ratio was roughly the same, or perhaps a bit lower, than that for the country as a whole, and probably for similar reasons (hours worked, seniority of position, time on the job). That would be Lizzy’s excuse, and it’s a valid one, although not one she considers for the rest of us.
This isn’t about economics, it’s about special interest vote currying.
Not shocking. Just like when the Democratic Senate had filibuster proof majority in the Senate and they didn’t vote for an equal pay for equal work bill. They are a bunch of hypocrites who use the equal pay for equal work as a campaign slogan and really never want that to pass.
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