Pay Gap Alert: Clinton Foundation Male Execs Earn 38% More Than Women

Richard Pollock Reporter 4:29 PM 04/12/2016

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign event at the Queens borough of New York April 10, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign event at the Queens borough of New York April 10, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz 4983233

Male executives at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation earn 38 percent more than women executives, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of the foundation's latest IRS tax filings.

The foundation's 2013 IRS form 990 reveals that nearly three times as many men as women occupy the executive suites at the Little Rock, Arkansas-based foundation.

On average, top male executives at the foundation earn $109,000 more than the top female executives with positions in the C-suite.

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The numbers were in stark contrast to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign-oriented "Equal Pay Day" speech, which she delivered in Silicon Valley Tuesday . She charged that equal pay for women was "long overdue."

"I feel like [equal pay] is something that's long overdue," she told an event organized by Glassdoor, which compares salaries and working conditions at corporations.

"It is way past time to end the outrage of so many women still earning less than men on the job," she told the audience.

Pay equity at The Clinton Foundation, however, doesn't quite meet those standards.

The foundation's highest paid executive is Frederick Post, director of "sponsor and marketing," who has built the foundation's assets to $247 million. He received $484,000 in annual compensation.

The highest paid woman is CEO Virginia Ehrlich. Her pay is only $201,000, less than half that of Post's.

The second-highest paid male is long-time Clinton associate Bruce Lindsay, who received $395,000 in annual compensation.

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All eight male foundation execs earn $200,000 or more. Only one woman earned $200,000, while Stephanie Streett, its executive director, received a paltry $169,000.

Altogether, eight executives are men in the executive suites compared to three women, according to the foundation's filing.

Clinton did not refer to her own foundation's pay disparities at the event.

A Clinton Foundation spokesman has not responded to a DCNF request for comment.



Hillary Clinton: Salesforce and Gap are getting equal pay right


Clinton Praised Tech Companies on Equal Pay Day

Mandi Woodruff Yahoo Finance By Mandi Woodruff April 12, 2016 12:15 PM

On Equal Pay Day, Hillary Clinton gave kudos to Salesforce, Gap, and other Silicon Valley companies for carrying their share of the load.

At a candid discussion on the state of equal pay for women in America, Hillary Clinton gave kudos to Silicon Valley CEOs for carrying their share of the load.

"If CEOs and board members will actually ask themselves 'How sure are we we that we are paying people the same?' the data shows even in the best-intentioned companies that is often not happening," she said. Clinton spoke at a round table discussion hosted by salary data site Glassdoor.com. She gave a nod to Salesforce (CRM ) CEO Marc Benioff, who spent $3 million last year to close the gender wage gap at his company, and Gap (GPS) , the first Fortune 500 company to announce that it pays female and male employees equally in 2014.

"I'm very focused on making sure we don't lose the impetus behind this conversation and that we get more companies ... to be public [about their gender wage gap]," Clinton said.

Silicon Valley is rising to the challenge. On Tuesday, Facebook (FB ) and Microsoft (MS ) became the latest tech giants to announce they had achieved pay parity among their male and female workers. They follow in the footsteps of Intel, which announced in February it had achieved 100% pay parity between men and women workers with the same job, and Apple and Amazon, which were quick to follow. At Apple, women earn 99.6% of what male employees earn and at Amazon, women earn 99.9% of men in equivalent jobs. If this trend is anything like last summer's scramble to publish racial pay data in the Valley, more tech giants are sure to follow.

Whether they get a head start or not, business leaders won't have long to resist publishing salary data publicly. Under a new federal regulation set to take effect next year, companies with 100 employees or more will have to begin reporting wage data to the federal government .

The panel also included Megan Rapinoe, Women's Soccer World Cup Champion, Robert Hohman, co-founder and CEO, Glassdoor, Inc, Lori Nishiura Mackenzie, executive director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, Dan Henkle, president, Gap Foundation & SVP of global sustainability of Gap Inc., and Tracy Sturdivant, co-founder & co-executive director of Make It Work.

There was only the slightest hint of exasperation in her tone when the Democratic presidential candidate joked about how often she's asked to weigh in on pay disparities ("almost every day"). The wage gap has barely budged in the last 30 years and it's been 20 years since Clinton gave her now-famous speech on the state of women around the world at the United Nations. Women still earn 80 cents for every $1 a man earns for the same work, and black and Hispanic women earn even less (64 cents and 56 cents, respectively). Some predict it will take at least another 100 years to level the playing field.

Clinton has called for a multi-pronged effort to close the gap, starting by passing the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would add some teeth to the 50-year-old Equal Pay Act by preventing employers from retaliating against workers who share wage information. She's also called for a higher federal minimum wage and new laws requiring employers to provide paid family and medical leave (she and her opponent Bernie Sanders agree on that front).

"I feel like [equal pay] is something that's long overdue but I know we've got to keep moving forward," Clinton said.

Equal Pay day this year falls on the one-year anniversary of the launch of Clinton's presidential campaign. At the kickoff event held in New York City that day, Clinton promised to keep pay parity front and center in her bid for the Democratic nomination.

"It is way past time to end the outrage of so many women still earning less than men on the job - and women of color often making even less," she said. "This isn't a women's issue. It's a family issue."

*Mandi Woodruff is a reporter for Yahoo Finance and host of ***Brown Ambition* **, a weekly podcast about life, love and money***. * *