25 Ways to Higher Pay

1. Choose a Field in Technology or the Hard Sciences, Not the Arts or Social Sciences (Pharmacology vs. literature)

2. Get Hazard Pay without the Hazards (female administrator in Air Force vs. male combat soldier in Army)
• Why Hazardous Jobs are So Much Less Hazardous for Women
• Men’s Weakness As Their Façade Of Strength; Women’s Strength as Their Façade Of Weakness

3. Among Jobs Requiring Little Education, Those that Expose you to the Sleet and Heat Pay More Than Those that are Indoors and Neat (Fed Ex delivery vs. receptionist)
• When Affirmative Action Marries Technology

4. In Most Fields With Higher Pay, You Can’t Psychologically Check Out at The End of the Day (corporate attorney vs. librarian)

5. Fields with Higher Pay Often Have Lower Fulfillment (engineer vs. childcare professional)
• Women Penetrate Glass Ceiling, Find Wisdom, Leave

6. People Who Get Higher Financial Rewards Choose Fields with Higher Financial and Emotional Risks (venture capitalist vs. supermarket cashier)
• Preparing Our Daughters to Take Risks

7. Many Fields with Higher Pay Require Working the Worst Shifts During the Worst Hours (private practice medical doctor vs. HMO medical doctor)

8. Some Jobs Pay More to Attract People to Unpleasant Environments Without Many People (prison guard vs. restaurant hostess)

9. Updating Pays: Currency Begets Currency (sales engineer vs. French language scholar)

10. Also Choose Subfields with the “High Pay Formula” (surgeon vs. psychiatrist)

11. Work More Hours – And It Makes a Big Difference.
• How Many Hours is Optimal?

12. Have More Years of Experience–Especially in Their Current Occupation
• The Women-First Club

13. Have More Years of Recent, Uninterrupted Experience with Their Current Employer

14. Work More Weeks During the Year

15. Are Absent Less Often From Work

16. Commute to Jobs that are Farther Away

17. Relocate—Especially to Undesirable Locations at the Company’s Behest
• Carpe Diem Moving

18. Travel Extensively On the Job

19. Take On Different Responsibilities Even When Their Titles Are the Same

20. Take On Bigger-Sized Responsibilities Even When Their Titles Are the Same

21. Require Less Security

22. Have More Relevant Training in their Current Occupation

23. Have Higher Career Goals to Begin With

24. Do More in-Depth Job Searches

25. Above All, Produce More
• Do Men Earn More Because They’re More Productive?