While the nation’s gender pay gap among physicians is shrinking, Greater Hartford remains one of the top regions fueling the industry’s wage disparity, a new report says.
The Hartford region ranked No. 4 nationally for metros with the largest gender wage gap in 2018, with women earning 31 percent, or $118,813, less than their male counterparts, according to a report released Tuesday by San Francisco-based Doximity, a social network for physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
According to the findings, which draw from self-reported compensation surveys by about 90,000 full-time physicians, Greater Hartford’s physician wage gap rose by 9 percent in 2018, the second-largest percent in the U.S.
Physicians in Greater Hartford on average earn the tenth largest salaries in the U.S., earning $352,129 per year.
While the Hartford area ranked poorly in the Doximity report, the physician-compensation gap last year was much smaller between males and females working in the Bridgeport and New Haven areas.
Doximity says the Bridgeport and New Haven markets last year ranked No. 2 and No. 9, respectively, with the largest decreases in gender wage gap for physicians. The Bridgeport region had the nation’s second smallest gender wage gap in the industry, at 10 percent.
Female physicians in the Bridgeport area in 2018 also earned the second largest average annual salary in the country of $319,577. The region has the nation’s second smallest gender wage gap, at 10 percent, in the industry.
The smallest gender wage gap was found in Birmingham, Ala., where female physicians earn 9 percent less than men, or a difference of $28,542.
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