--- title: White Male Doctors Make More Money Than Black Male Doctors description: Pay disparities even happen in medicine by sex and race, a new study finds. White male doctors earn $60,000 more than black male doctors canonical: https://time.com/4360062/black-doctors-medicine/ author: Mandy Oaklander article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-07T22:30:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:55:29.411Z article:section: Health og:title: White Male Doctors Make More Money Than Black Male Doctors og:description: Pay disparities even happen in medicine by sex and race, a new study finds. 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Jun 7, 2016 10:30 PM UTC  Elizabeth Renstrom for TIME  by [Mandy Oaklander](https://time.com/author/mandy-oaklander/)  ## Mandy Oaklander Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. Jun 7, 2016 10:30 PM UTC Far too often, a person’s sex or skin color is connected to how much he or she earns—even in the reputationally well-paying field of medicine, finds a new [study](http://www.bmj.com/user/login?destination=node/924684) published in _The BMJ_. Men make more than women, and white male doctors typically earn about $60,000 more than black male doctors. A strong body of literature backs the first finding. Women in medicine make about $15,000 less than men, even after controlling for age, geography and specialty, according to [one study](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhm.2400/abstract) last year. (It’s not limited to medicine; check out [TIME’s pay gap calculator](http://motto.time.com/4201637/pay-gap-calculator/) to see the differences across various fields.) “Less well understood are the differences between black and white physicians,” says Dr. Anupam Jena, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and author of the new _BMJ_ analysis. Jena, an economist and physician, and his team analyzed census data of a nationally representative set of U.S. physicians from 2000 to 2013\. They adjusted the data for age, hours worked and the state in which doctors practiced. According to the census data, white male doctors made about $253,000, while black male physicians made about $188,000—a difference of almost $65,000\. White female doctors made about $163,000, while black female doctors made about $152,000\. While the difference between women by race wasn’t considered statistically different, the difference between female and male salaries is astounding. In a second analysis, the researchers used a smaller data set that was able to control for even more factors, including specialization, insurance cases and practice type, which are thought to influence income. Even then, “the black-white income gap among physicians persists,” Jena says. But why? “It really is hard to understand what exactly is driving this difference,” says Jena. “It could be the case that black male physicians have far different preferences than white male physicians when it comes to the types of places that they want to work—but my sense is that’s probably unlikely.” The pay disparities by race and sex reflect those in the overall labor market, yet pay differences by race are often attributed to factors like differences in education. But in medicine, a field that requires fearsome levels of education for everyone, other factors must explain the gap. “You would think or hope that as you start to focus in on people who are much more similar than they are dissimilar, that income disparities would start to vanish,” says Jena. “It appears that that’s not the case.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4360062/black-doctors-medicine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4360062/black-doctors-medicine/"},"headline":"White Male Doctors Are Paid Way More Than Blacks and Women","datePublished":"2016-06-07T22:30:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:55:29.411Z","description":"Men make more than women, and white male doctors typically earn about $60,000 more per year than black male doctors.","url":"https://time.com/4360062/black-doctors-medicine/","keywords":["medicine","Research"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5745fd9e53c0fe18/698778965f570f47e0b148f6/health-gloves.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mandy Oaklander","jobTitle":"Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mandy-oaklander/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5745fd9e53c0fe18/698778965f570f47e0b148f6/health-gloves.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIME.com stock photos Health First Aid Kit Gloves","caption":"TIME.com stock photos Health First Aid Kit Gloves","creditText":"Elizabeth Renstrom for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/medicine/","name":"medicine"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4360062/black-doctors-medicine/","name":"White Male Doctors Are Paid Way More Than Blacks and Women"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"High-Paid Women Still Left Behind","description":"According to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there's a major wage gap still between the sexes.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/TKSEJaQV/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-04-12T13:17:10.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/TKSEJaQV.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4360062/black-doctors-medicine/","duration":"PT55S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4360062/black-doctors-medicine/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```