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Contents:
- MEET GAGE GAY, PROFSNAL BULL RIR
- WHAT DO THE GAY WAGE GAP MEAN FOR LGBTQ+ FAI?
- GAY MEN USED TO EARN LS THAN STRAIGHT MEN; NOW THEY EARN MORE
- UNEQUAL PAY: THE GAY WAGE GAP
- PBR – GAGE GAY WS RANCHMAN’S PBR CHARY CLASSIC
MEET GAGE GAY, PROFSNAL BULL RIR
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Acrdg to rearch om Pntial Fancial: The LGBT Fancial Experience, 2016-2017, on average, bisexual men earned $85, 084 per year, heterosexual men earned $83, 469, gay men earned $56, 936, heterosexual women earned $51, 461, lbian women earned $45, 606 and bisexual women earned $35, 980. The Natnal Black Coaln for Jtice (NBCJ) also found that gay and bisexual men, the hight earners of the LGBTQ+ muny, do experience a wage penalty, earng 10%-32% ls than heterosexual men (when studi were ntrolled for tn, occupatn, and lotn). Bisexual men earned $85, 084 per year, heterosexual men earned $83, 469, gay men earned $56, 936, heterosexual women earned $51, 461, lbian women earned $45, 606 and bisexual women earned $35, 980.
The Debt-Free Guys (John Schneir and David Auten) n a fancial advice blog and the and Queer Money podst, which targets the gay muny. A 2018 Buzzfeed survey found that bisexual men and women outnumber gay men and lbian women the U. (46% of the LGBTQ+ muny intify as bisexual, 32% as gay, 16% as lbian, 1% as asexual, 1% as straight, and 1% as queer or otherwise self-scribg).
WHAT DO THE GAY WAGE GAP MEAN FOR LGBTQ+ FAI?
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But until recently, wage discrimatn agast bisexual women particular has been nflated wh discrimatn agast gay women. A 2019 Gallup Poll found that 93% of people thk that gay and lbian people should have equal rights terms of job opportuni; for bisexual, transgenr, and genr non-nformg folks, may be a longer battle.
A 2019 Gallup Poll also found that 53% of people thought new civil rights laws were need to rce discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people. A global meta-analysis om 2014 found that on average, gay men earned 11% ls than heterosexual men.
Some 29% of people aged between 13 and 23 who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, unfed, asexual (LGBTUA+) chose to avoid a reer STEM bee of fears that they would be discrimated agast. Once LGBTQ+ people enter the workforce, they occupy different rol, wh an unually high ncentratn of gay and lbian workers psychology, law, social work and universy teachg. As shown by a 2015 paper published Admistrative Science Quarterly, there’s some tth the ‘gay jobs’ stereotype, wh occupatnal segregatn lked to an LGBTQ+ employee’s sire for task pennce, which mak ncealg their sexual orientatn easier.
GAY MEN USED TO EARN LS THAN STRAIGHT MEN; NOW THEY EARN MORE
In recment suatns, gay or lbian applints the UK are 5% ls likely to be ved to an terview than heterosexual male or female applints. In the US, employers are more likely to view rum om applints who stated their sexual orientatn as gay or lbian wh a cril eye. A UK study published the Indtrial and Labor Relatns Review found that the pay gap tends to be greater for gay men who are partnered – and therefore leadg a visibly LGBTQ+ life – vers those who are sgle.
However, gay men and lbians who are open about their sexual orientatn at their workplace are more likely to report higher job satisfactn. Rearch om the US 2020 found that anti-discrimatn laws cut hourly earngs penalti by 11% for gay men, pared to heterosexual men.
UNEQUAL PAY: THE GAY WAGE GAP
Lbian / gay women earned approximately $962 a week – equivalent to that of Whe LGBTQ+ women, and higher than LGBTQ+ women as a whole.
PBR – GAGE GAY WS RANCHMAN’S PBR CHARY CLASSIC
Though they still face a wage gap, earng 87 cents for every dollar earned by the average man, this wage gap is smaller than that seen for women as a whole, suggtg a potential protective effect of beg lbian or gay, relative to other sexual inti. Lbian/ gay women. Lbian/Gay women’s wage gap, by race/ethnicy.
The fdg that the wage gap was smallt for lbian/gay women persisted across race/ethnicy: for each racial/ethnic group, the wage gap experienced by lbian/gay women was smaller than that for same-race/ethnicy women of any other sexual inty.
This was most apparent for AANHPI lbian/gay women, who were the only group to outearn men, earng $1200 a week–or $1. Whe lbian/gay women, though earng ls than the average man, still outearned LGBTQ+ women, reportg a median wage of $1000 – translatg to a smaller wage gap than LGBTQ+ women and U. Black lbian/gay women also outearned LGBTQ+ women, though to a lser gree than Whe lbian/gay women, reportg a median wage of $950, or 86 cents for every dollar earned by a man.