More women on state payroll, but lower median pay

Female state employees earned 91 percent of their male peers in Iowa

  Women outnumber men in Iowa’s state government, but earned a lower median salary last year. The new state salary database, released Thursday, includes nearly 60,000 employees with a combined payroll of $3.02 billion for the year that ended June 30. The state employed 32,788 women last year with a median salary of $45,675, compared [...]

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