{"id":544861,"date":"2025-03-20T18:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=544861"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:54:58","slug":"postgraduate-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/postgraduate-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgraduate salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There has been a significant drop in the remuneration of formal employees with postgraduate degrees (master&#8217;s and doctorates) since 2015<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>The decline occurred for both men and women between 2014 and 2021. For people with doctorates, the drop was higher among women (-24%) than among men (-22%). For people with master&#8217;s degrees, it was 21% among men and 19% among women<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class='overflow-responsive-img' style='text-align:center'><picture data-tablet=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF\u2014dados-2023-07-info1-ING-DESK.jpg\" data-tablet_size=\"1140x440\" alt=\"\">\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF\u2014dados-2023-07-info1-ING-DESK.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1920px)\" \/>\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF\u2014dados-2023-07-info1-ING-DESK.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1140px)\" \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF\u2014dados-2023-07-info1-ING-MOBILE.jpg\" \/>\n  <\/picture><\/div><div class=\"post-content sequence\">\n<ul>\n<li>The graph below\u00a0shows the difference in salaries between genders<\/li>\n<li>In the case of master&#8217;s degrees, men earned between 36% and 38% more than women throughout the entire period. Among people with doctorates, the gap was lower (around 25%), but it increased steadily from 2017 onwards, reaching its highest value in 2021 (32%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class='overflow-responsive-img' style='text-align:center'><picture data-tablet=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF\u2014dados-2023-07-info2-ING-DESK.jpg\" data-tablet_size=\"1140x380\" alt=\"\">\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF\u2014dados-2023-07-info2-ING-DESK.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1920px)\" \/>\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF\u2014dados-2023-07-info2-ING-DESK.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1140px)\" \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF\u2014dados-2023-07-info2-ING-MOBILE.jpg\" \/>\n  <\/picture><\/div><div class=\"post-content sequence\">\n<ul>\n<li>The graph below shows the salary difference between a person with a doctorate and a person with a master&#8217;s degree, for both men and women<\/li>\n<li>For the total, the difference varied between 44% and 48% from 2011 to 2018, after which it began declining, until reaching its minimum (38%) in 2021<\/li>\n<li>The difference was greater for women, varying between 54% and 59% until 2020 and reaching a minimum value of 47% in 2021<\/li>\n<li>Among men, it was smaller, ranging between 31% and 37% until 2020 and then decreasing to 29% in 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class='overflow-responsive-img' style='text-align:center'><picture data-tablet=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF\u2014dados-2023-07-info2-ING-DESK.jpg\" data-tablet_size=\"1140x380\" alt=\"\">\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF\u2014dados-2023-07-info2-ING-DESK.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1920px)\" \/>\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF\u2014dados-2023-07-info2-ING-DESK.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1140px)\" \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF\u2014dados-2023-07-info2-ING-MOBILE.jpg\" \/>\n  <\/picture><\/div><div class=\"post-content sequence\">\n<p class=\"bibliografia separador-bibliografia\"><strong>Note (1) <\/strong>The data presented are derived from aggregates of all master&#8217;s and doctorate degrees. <strong>Source <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mestresdoutores2024.cgee.org.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Masters and Doctors 2024, CGEE<\/a> \u2013 (Accessed on: 07\/08\/2024). <strong>Prepared by<\/strong> the FAPESP, DPCTA, Planning, Studies, and Indicators Team \u2013 GIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Significant real drop in salaries of people with postgraduate degrees","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1328],"tags":[226],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-544861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","tag-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546186,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544861\/revisions\/546186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544861"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=544861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}