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Pittsburgh Public Schools reduced its racial pay disparity, with a previous $20,000 gap in median salaries between white and Black employees narrowing to about $3,000 last year.

But female employees earned about $9,000 less than their male counterparts, according to PublicSource’s annual review of district pay data.

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Push for pay equity in Pittsburgh Public Schools moves needle on racial gap

Teaching ranks remained very largely white, while lower-paid paraprofessionals and food service workers skewed Black and brown. Explore all the data here.

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