Addressing Gender-Based Disparities in Earning Potential in Academic Medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Gender-based disparities in compensation in academic medicine are recognized, but their estimated impacts on early career earning potential and strategies to mitigate them have not been well studied.

Objectives

To compare earning potential between female and male academic physicians in the first 10 years of posttraining employment and to evaluate the estimated impact of promotion timing, starting salary, and salary growth rate on earning potential.

Design, setting, and participants

Using publicly available mean debt and compensation data for full-time employed academic physicians in the US from 2019 to 2020, starting salary, salary in year 10 of employment, annual salary growth rate, and overall earning potential in the first 10 years of employment were est

SUBMITTER: Catenaccio E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8857688 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature