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When is Equal Pay Day for social sector leaders in your state?

Cathleen Clerkin, Ph.D. (she/her)
May 24, 2022

Equal Pay Day is a symbolic day created by the National Committee on Pay Equity to increase awareness about the gender wage gap. Specifically, this day marks how far into the year a woman must work to receive the same wage that a man received the previous year. This year, U.S. Equal Pay Day landed on March 15, meaning that women in the U.S. had to work a 14-and-a-half-month year to earn the same amount that men made in 2021. This translates to women making about 83 cents for every dollar made by men (based on median income). However, the gender pay gap varies by industry, role, etc. For the last two years, I’ve calculated Equal Pay Day for CEOs and executive directors in the social sector, based on Candid’s most recent Nonprofit Compensation Report. This year, my analysis showed that the median compensation for women was $85k and the median compensation for men was $118k. This equates to nonprofit CEO Equal Pay Day falling on today, May 24, 2022. In other words, if you’re a woman nonprofit CEO, the gender pay gap is costing you an additional 2+ months of pay above and beyond the pay gap in the general population.

In honor of nonprofit CEO Equal Pay Day, I calculated the gender pay gap for leaders in each state. The results of this analysis showed that the gender pay gap persists in every single state. Across the U.S. women nonprofit CEOs make between 59 cents and 87 cents for every dollar made by men nonprofit CEOs. This equates to state Equal Pay Days ranging from March to October. Check out the list below to see how things stand in your state.

Rank	State	Median compensation for men CEOs	Median compensation for women CEOs	Cents that women make for every dollar made by men.
1	Hawaii	$100,000.00	$86,966.50	$0.87
2	Maine	$92,983.00	$80,133.00	$0.86
3	Montana	$79,411.00	$65,078.00	$0.82
4	Alaska	$106,526.00	$87,041.00	$0.82
5	California	$125,000.00	$101,231.00	$0.81
6	Oregon	$95,451.00	$77,204.00	$0.81
7	Oklahoma	$90,763.00	$72,876.00	$0.80
8	Louisiana	$102,084.00	$79,983.00	$0.78
9	Washington	$107,052.00	$83,392.00	$0.78
10	Minnesota	$110,470.00	$84,951.00	$0.77
11	New Mexico	$93,268.00	$71,636.00	$0.77
12	Florida	$112,900.00	$85,554.50	$0.76
13	Texas	$105,000.00	$79,218.00	$0.75
14	Rhode Island	$133,689.00	$100,530.00	$0.75
15	Indiana	$100,470.50	$74,921.00	$0.75
16	Arizona	$110,454.00	$82,162.00	$0.74
17	North Carolina	$97,627.50	$72,407.50	$0.74
18	Missouri	$109,412.00	$81,039.00	$0.74
19	District of Columbia	$216,744.50	$160,250.00	$0.74
20	Nevada	$121,761.00	$90,002.00	$0.74
21	Colorado	$109,415.00	$79,689.00	$0.73
22	Delaware	$118,244.00	$85,735.00	$0.73
23	West Virginia	$93,424.00	$66,986.50	$0.72
24	Kentucky	$105,481.00	$75,000.00	$0.71
25	New York	$154,274.50	$109,249.00	$0.71
26	Pennsylvania	$123,500.00	$86,722.00	$0.70
27	New Jersey	$145,496.00	$102,100.00	$0.70
28	Maryland	$139,771.00	$97,917.50	$0.70
29	Tennessee	$104,160.00	$72,568.00	$0.70
30	Connecticut	$144,692.00	$100,755.50	$0.70
31	Nebraska	$108,885.00	$75,783.00	$0.70
32	Iowa	$112,104.00	$77,973.00	$0.70
33	Michigan	$111,948.00	$77,822.00	$0.70
34	Utah	$111,829.00	$77,097.00	$0.69
35	South Dakota	$101,964.50	$70,000.00	$0.69
36	Wisconsin	$110,005.00	$75,375.00	$0.69
37	Alabama	$98,374.00	$67,243.00	$0.68
38	Vermont	$96,406.00	$65,868.00	$0.68
39	South Carolina	$100,007.00	$68,269.00	$0.68
40	Ohio	$110,403.50	$75,354.00	$0.68
41	Georgia	$107,929.00	$72,995.00	$0.68
42	Idaho	$90,761.00	$61,340.00	$0.68
43	Massachusetts	$152,507.00	$103,001.50	$0.68
44	Illinois	$132,000.00	$88,859.00	$0.67
45	Arkansas	$104,000.00	$69,974.00	$0.67
46	Wyoming	$101,348.00	$64,578.50	$0.64
47	New Hampshire	$118,819.00	$75,610.00	$0.64
48	Kansas	$112,037.00	$70,741.00	$0.63
49	Virginia	$143,321.50	$87,550.00	$0.61
50	North Dakota	$124,962.00	$74,574.00	$0.60
51	Mississippi	$109,572.50	$64,896.00	$0.59

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Cathleen Clerkin, Ph.D. (she/her)

Associate Vice President of Research, Candid
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Cathleen leads the research function at Candid and is responsible for executing Candid’s research agenda and managing the day-to-day operations of the Insights Division. In this role, she works closely with partners across Candid to help make meaning out of data and share it with the field.

Cathleen is passionate about conducting, translating, and leveraging research to turn ideas and data into action and impact. She is a psychologist by training, with interests in organizational behavior, resilience, equity, diversity, inclusion, and leadership development.

Before joining Candid in December 2020, she worked at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) a nonprofit dedicated to improving the understanding, practice, and development of leadership at all levels for the benefit of society worldwide. During her tenure (2013-2020), she went from a research associate to leading the strategic research function—the team primarily responsible for CCL’s research agenda and scientific contributions.

Cathleen’s research has been published broadly in both academic and popular press venues and she has been awarded multiple honors for her work, including recognition from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Cathleen holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Creative Leadership.

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