Bush's Women Earn Less than Bush's Men

What a surprise.

From Bluelemur, in association with Raw Story, comes a point to an article in the Washington Post about a leaked Excel spreadsheet:

The Washington Post acquired a copy of the President’s staff’s salaries, and highlighted the disparity between the income of women and men. President Bush appears to be unable to keep even the salaries of his own staff secret, when most companies (without the assistance of the Secret Service and national intelligence agencies) are able to do so easily.

With new White House salary figures leaked to The Washington Post and an Excel spreadsheet, crack researcher Margot Williams determined that men in the Bush White House earn an average of $76,624 a year. Women earn $59,917 on average. Bush women earn about 78 percent of what Bush men earn.

As it happens, that’s almost exactly the national average for the gap in pay between the sexes, although it’s a good bit below the 88 percent for the nearly 1 million professional and administrative employees in the federal workforce.

At the White House, the gap has nothing to do with wage discrimination: Women and men with similar titles receive similar pay. Rather, it comes from the dominance of men in high-end jobs; of the 17 White House staffers earning $157,000 – the top of the pay scale this year – 12 are men.

Overall, working in the White House is quite a good living. The average salary, $67,075, is well above the latest available metropolitan Washington average of $48,420, and nearly double the national average of $36,764.