Women who work in New York City’s municipal jobs are earning less than men, according to a new report from the City Council. The report also found that median salaries for Black, Latino and Asian workers are lower than those of the city’s white employees.
from the City Council. The report, released on Thursday, also found that median salaries for Black, Latino and Asian workers are lower than those of the city’s white employees.
City jobs that are most likely to be dominated by women include secretarial jobs and caregiving roles. The median salary for a secretary in the city was $46,673. For a staff nursing job, the median salary was $71,932. She noted that these disparities “exist along the same gender and racial hierarchies that have organized our economy at large for the entirety of our city's — and country's — history.”
The report was a continuation of the push behind Local Law 18, which mandated public reporting of city employee pay data.