03/12/2024

Women CEOs Earn Less Than Male Counterparts in Associations

Within associations, salaries for women CEOs continue to lag behind men’s

March 12, 2024, is Equal Pay Day, the point on the calendar, according to the National Committee for Pay Equity, that symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.

And When It Comes to Associations…

ASAE's executive compensation team, which consults with associations and boards of directors to benchmark salaries in associations, analyzed data from 2,868 national associations that had paid a full-time CEO.

They found that women association chief executives continue to earn less than men in the same positions in nearly every organizational category. In trade groups, women earn a median of 12 percent less. In professional societies, it is 10 percent less.

Please select this link to read the complete article from ASAE’s Center for Association Leadership.