Biden’s White House narrows gender-pay gap

More than half of the White House staff appointed by President Joe Biden are women, and there’s near parity in salaries between genders, according to an administration report released July 1, Report informs referring to Bloomberg.

Some 60 percent of Biden’s White House appointees are female, according to a fact sheet accompanying a report to Congress that details employees’ names, titles, and salaries. There is a narrow gender pay gap, with women earning an average of $93,752 and men making $94,639 - a difference of about 1 percent, which the White House called “roughly equal.”

The slight difference in pay marks a sharp contrast with Donald Trump’s White House, where men’s salaries outweighed women’s by tens of thousands of dollars. In the 2020 Trump report to Congress, women made 31 percent less than men.

In Biden’s White House, 22 people earn the maximum salary of $180,000, and 13 of them are women. Those making that salary include Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Press Secretary Jen Psaki, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice, and senior advisers Neera Tanden and Mike Donilon.