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> 99¢ vs. $1 for men isn't it on the border of measurement error ? Would it be fair to say, after controlling for some variables the gender gap narrows down to

• interroboink 2y ago
  > isn't it on the border of measurement error? At least going by that payscale.com link, I don't think so. That is compiled from 600K+ responses, so they have enough data to measure small differences with some confidence, I think. I didn't sign up to download the full dataset though, so I'm mostly going by their claims. Quoting from the article: Although $0.99 may seem very close to $1, the red line in the chart below has never crossed the dotted $1 line in blue representing men’s pay. Even when women are doing the same jobs, the gender pay gap is not zero. If it were a "lost in measurement error" thing, I would expect that chart to have a lot more noise in it — some years women would be above men, other years below (that said, I do wish the charts had error bars). Instead, it's showing a small-but-consistent difference repeated across the years.