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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 8, 2021 After five consecutive years of widening the pay gap between men and women, Senate Democrats now have the worst gender-based salary disparity in Congress. Senate Democrats pay their female staffers only 92.4% of what men make. That means that the average female staffer took home $4,500 less than men in 2020. The Senate Democrats' pay gap has grown each year since 2015, when what women received reached 99.6 percent of what men did. All numbers come from a LegiStorm analysis of publicly available salary data. Excluding Senate Democrats, pay gaps have shrunk across Congress over the last decade. Senate Republicans now pay women 98.6 percent of what men make ($800 less per year). Women working for House Democrats make 98.2 percent of what men make ($1,000 less), while women working for House Republicans make 95.7% of men ($2,380 less). In the Senate, men outearn women in policy, communications and constituent-services jobs. Policy jobs make up the chamber's biggest pay gap, with women making $7,640 less than men. In the House, women in policy jobs actually make about $400 more than men, although they continue to make less in communications jobs and roughly the same in constituent-services work. Some people and organizations who "caught our eye" last week:- Brendan Belair, Chief of Staff, Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) (former staffer), and Erica Barker, Legislative Director, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) (former staffer) - Uh oh!
Quick exits - Fred Klein, Front Office Assistant, Sen. George Allen (R-VA) (former staffer) – Uh oh!
House arrest - Andrea Goldstein, Senior Policy Adviser, Women Veterans Task Force, House Veterans' Affairs Committee (current staffer) – Bravo!
Equal to the job
Hill Hires - Alex Huang, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Legislative Director
- Josh Marcus-Blank, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Communications Director
- Lacy Nelson, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Digital Director
- Rob Wagener, Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI), Legislative Director
Hill Departures - Habiba Mohamed, formerly Assistant to Congressional Progressive Caucus
(now Federal Affairs Lead at Pay Our Interns) - Eric Feldman, formerly Chief of Staff to Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)
(now Head of Federal and International Affairs at Airbnb) - Andi Fristedt, formerly Deputy Director, Health Policy to Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
(now Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the Food and Drug Administration) - Gabby Richards, formerly Communications Director to Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA)
(now National Advocacy and Communications Professional at BerlinRosen)
Hill Moves and Promotions - Caitlyn Stephenson, now Chief of Staff for Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI)
(formerly Deputy Chief of Staff) - Leigh Whittaker, now Senior Legislative Assistant for Rep. David Price (D-NC)
(formerly Legislative Assistant) - Theresa Lou, now Professional Staff Member, Democratic for House Foreign Affairs Committee Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and Nonproliferation Subcommittee
(formerly Policy Analyst to House Foreign Affairs Committee)
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