Noun
pay gap (plural pay gaps)
The difference in salaries between one group and another.
Synonym: wage gap
gender pay gap
race pay gap
sexual orientation pay gap
Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else. Steven Rattner
If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay. Warren Farrell
Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap. Satya Nadella