{"id":8119,"date":"2023-04-05T13:59:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:59:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:55:11","slug":"when-negotiating-starting-salaries-most-us-women-and-men-dont-ask-for-higher-pay","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2023\/04\/05\/when-negotiating-starting-salaries-most-us-women-and-men-dont-ask-for-higher-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"When negotiating starting salaries, most U.S. women and men don\u2019t ask for higher pay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The gender pay gap<\/a> in the United States is sometimes linked to differences in the way women and men approach negotiating their pay<\/a>. Most U.S. workers who are not self-employed say they did not ask for higher pay than what was initially offered the last time they were hired for a job, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. But men are slightly more likely than women (32% vs. 28%) to say they did<\/em> ask for higher pay than what was offered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Among workers who did ask for higher pay, 28% say they were given the pay they asked for, 38% say they were given more than was originally offered but less than they had asked for, and 35% say they were only given what was first offered. Women are more likely than men (38% vs. 31%) to say that after asking for higher pay, they were only given what had initially been offered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gender differences also emerge when workers who didn\u2019t negotiate for more pay are asked why not. Overall, 39% of workers who didn\u2019t ask for higher pay say they were satisfied with the pay that was offered. A similar share (38%) say they didn\u2019t feel comfortable asking for higher pay, and 23% say there was some other reason.<\/p>\n\n\n

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