Older employees face larger gender-based federal pay gap, EEOC says
In the federal workforce, older employees are facing a larger gender-based federal pay gap, on average, than younger employees. By some measures, t he federal pay gap between men and women can be about three times larger for feds 40 and over, than feds under 40 years old, a Jan. 2 report from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found. “Gender pay gaps are larger for older employees. Over a lifetime, this adds up,” Karen Brummond, a social science research analyst at EEOC’s office of federal operations, said in a Jan. 2 statement . “A small gender pay gap early in one’s career can multiply into a larger gap over time.” Nationwide, women are paid 16% lower, on average, than men. But in the federal workforce, women are paid 5.6% less, on average, than men, according to 2022 data. Although smaller in comparison to the private sector, a federal pay gap still exists — and the Office of Personnel Management took steps over the past few years to try to close th...