Study: Pay gap for women physicians hits $50,000 a year

Female physicians in the U.S. continue to earn less than their male counterparts, with the pay gap widening during the past two decades to more than $50,000 annually in 2010, according to a report published in JAMA Internal Medicine last week. Researchers led by Seth Seabury, an associate professor in the University of Southern California medical school and a fellow at the university’s Center for Health Policy & Economics, studying data from the Current Population Study, found that female physicians had a median annual income of $165,278 from 2006 to 2010, compared with yearly earnings of $221,297 for male physicians.