Pay Gap Narrows for Female Editors
This just in…every year Folio releases an annual report on magazine salaries and although there’s certainly a gap between female and male editors, there is a bright side.
In one category specifically women are not only narrowing the gap, they’re kicking it to the curb altogether. As per the data, in 2008 the average salary for men with a title of editor or executive editor was $75,500.
As for women, the average salary in the same, let’s repeat it together now — the same, was $56,400.
The good news is last year that gap not only closed, women surpassed men! The average for men was $84,200 whereas women took home base compensation of $85,700.
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