{"id":166787,"date":"2017-04-05T08:14:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T08:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/exactly-what-you-could-be-doing-with-a-19-percent-larger-income-every-year\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T08:14:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T08:14:59","slug":"exactly-what-you-could-be-doing-with-a-19-percent-larger-income-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/exactly-what-you-could-be-doing-with-a-19-percent-larger-income-every-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Exactly What You Could Be Doing With A 19 Percent Larger Income Every Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"field-body\">\n<p>Tuesday is Equal Pay Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness of the gender pay gap\u2014and its date is no accident. April 4, 2017 symbolizes how far into the next year women must work to earn what men earned in just the year before, according to the <u>National Committee on Equal Pay<\/u><\/a>. (Basically, men could sit on their butts for the first quarter of 2017 and will still earn at least as much as you by the end of the year.)<\/p>\n<p>According to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> last year, women who worked full-time in wage and salaried jobs in 2015 had a median weekly salary of $726, or $37,752 per year. Men, on the other hand, had a median weekly salary of $895 or $46,540 annually \u2014so overall, we\u2019re earning just 81 percent of what men do. In cold, hard cash, that\u2019s a difference of <strong>$8,788<\/strong> we\u2019re missing out on every single year.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday is Equal Pay Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness of the gender pay gap\u2014and its date is no accident. April 4, 2017 symbolizes how far into the next year women must work to earn what men earned in just the year before, according to the National Committee on Equal Pay. (Basically, men could <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/exactly-what-you-could-be-doing-with-a-19-percent-larger-income-every-year\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}