INDUSTRY comparisons

Womens average pay lagged behind mens in 11 of 15 industries represented on

our List. Though, some things did skew results. In engineering-related groups, for
instance, there werent any women executives to compare. Only one hospitality and
one legal association were included, and thanks to them both having a woman CEO,
those were two of the industries where women seemed to earn more on average.

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Even if women arent earning the most in total compensation among the highestpaid association executives in Greater Washington, a couple are bringing home
the biggest bonuses among all 247 people on the List.

Dawn Sweeney

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TOTAL NO. OF executives

Most of the women executives were at mid-size organizations, with revenue between $45 million and $100 million. But womens
compensation was comparatively worse in those size groups, especially on the lower-revenue end of the spectrum. Women at
the smallest and the largest associations (either less than $45 million or more than $300 million in revenue) earned the most
money compared with men, even out-earning them on average.

by revenue size of association

2,600,000

Agnes Warfield-Blanc

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Robert Josten

WHEN SIZE DOESNT MATTER

4,950,000

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Looking at just the top 50, the men had an average

compensation 40.8% higher than the average for women.

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360,405

DC

40.8%

$693,841

Medical

Out of 247 executives, men had an average compensation

that was 33.9% higher than the average compensation
for the women.

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1 percent.

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$918,727

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$71M$100M..............................$$$$

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financial

1,372,483

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Percentage of the time

when the association
CEO is a woman, she isnt
the highest-paid person.

$$$

$1,912,550

associations 2015 revenue

43%

Dawn
Sweeney
President/CEO
National
Restaurant
Association

692,363

Of the top 25 highestpaid executives at the 50

associations on the List, only
four are women, though two of
them landed in the top five
only one as the highest-ranking
official at her group.

Hospitality

R -15.4%

trade groups
top earners

DC

$818,608

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$466,018

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special interest

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656,312

DC

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AARP

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percent difference in
average compensation,
women versus men

Women executives seem to be flocking to

Maryland-based organizations, where they had the
largest representation geographically and the
lowest pay gap, at about 7 percent less than their
male counterparts. At D.C. and Virginia associations,
women executives earned about 22 percent and 20
percent less, respectively.

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by geography

by TOTAL compensation

1,765,448
1,122,115
1,075,000

Average compensation Women versus men, by revenue size

Percent difference

Women Men
$881,340
854,107

>$300M

963,823

$101M$300M

3.20%
1,232,746

-21.80%

936,834
946,124

$71M$100M
460,908

$61M$70M

411,087

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904,631

-35.90%

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26.70%

HIGHEST-PAID WOMEN Of the top 50 highest-paid executives at associations on our List, only seven are women.
name

job

organization

Dawn Sweeney

President/CEO

National Restaurant Association

total pay

% cash

$3,885,200

73.24%

Agnes Warfield-Blanc SVP

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

3,611,902

91.73

Pamela Bailey

President/CEO

Grocery Manufacturers Association

2,659,065

60.91

Susan Neely

President/CEO

American Beverage Association

1,830,465

76.46

Jo Ann Emerson

CEO

Natl Rural Electric Cooperative Association

1,390,637

82.30

Josephine Wang

Secretary/counsel

Securities Investor Protection Corp.

1,207,785

57.69

Victoria Espinel

President/CEO

Business Software Alliance

1,195,619

91.71

Madeleine Jacobs

CEO/Executive director

American Chemical Society

932,848

93.65

26%

31%

42%

30%

18%

20% Women