White House Paid Female Staffers Less Than Men in 2012
About 13 percent less on average
While President Barack Obama handily won the women's vote by 11 percentage points in November over Republican nominee Mitt Romney, his administration paid the women on his payroll less than his male employees last year.
A Daily Caller analysis of the administration's "2012 Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff" shows that while women comprised about half of the 468 staffers — as the president touted during his press conference Monday – they also earned about 13 percent less, on average, than their male counterparts.
The median 2012 salary for female employees of the White House was $62,000; for men that number was $71,000.
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It'd be funny to see Obama get sued by a staffer under the rules of his own Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.