How employers can rectify the LGBTQ pay gap

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Most employers are aware of the pay gaps that exist for women and people of color — but have they noticed the pay disparities among their LGBTQIA employees? 

According to a Human Rights Campaign survey of nearly 7,000 queer-identifying workers, LGBTQ+ talent makes 90 cents for every dollar a cisgender, heterosexual employee makes. This gap only widens when that employee is also a woman, person of color, trans or all of the above. Trans women are disadvantaged the most, making just 60 cents on the dollar. 

Deanna Cuadra
Senior Reporter

Deanna Cuadra is a senior reporter at Employee Benefit News. Her work covers healthcare, U.S. policy and reform, challenges faced by women and parents in the workplace and innovation in work culture … Read full bio


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