Disparities in Physician Compensation—A Call to Action

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Historically, a gender wage gap has existed across every field in the US. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated in 2020 that full-time working women had median salaries that were 82% of those of men.1 This disparity persisted across all age groups and ethnicities. In medicine, Jena et al2 showed in 2016 that academic male physicians out earned female physicians by a mean difference of $51 315 annually.2 Thus, the findings of gender inequity in medical industry compensation presented by Sullivan et al3 are not surprising. But the degree to which mean payments to top earners differed ($41 320 for women vs $1 226 377 for men)3 is still astonishing. Identify all potential conflicts of interest that might be relevant to your comment. Conflicts of interest comprise financial interests, activities, and relationships within the past 3 years including but not limited to employment, affiliation, grants or funding, consultancies, honoraria or payment, speaker's bureaus, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, royalties, donation of medical equipment, or patents planned, pending, or issued. Err on the side of full disclosure. If you have no conflicts of interest, check "No potential conflicts of interest" in the box below. The information will be posted with your response. Not all submitted comments are published. Please see our commenting policy for details.