Survey finds women in pubmedia management underpaid and under-represented

Women who lead public media organizations, or those trying to attain top jobs with equitable salaries, find the same glass ceiling and pay gap that limit career growth for females in the larger workforce. Women hold roughly 39 percent of the top jobs at television and radio stations in the 25 largest markets, according to Current’s first-ever study of executive pay and financial reporting by local stations.

Though Laura Walker of New York’s WNYC tops the list of the highest-paid local pubcasting executives, she and a handful of other female leaders are exceptions to the much larger trend. On average, women public media executives are paid about 83 cents for every dollar their male peers earned. The gap is wider when compared at the median, or midpoint of the highest and lowest salaries, at which women earned 73 percent of male executives