Salary Disparities in Public Health Occupations: Analysis of Federal Data, 2021‒2022.
Objectives. To assess salary differences between workers within key public health occupations in local or state government and workers in the same occupations in the private sector. Methods. We used the US Department of Labor's Occupational Employment and Wage Survey (OEWS). Referencing previous stu...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 114; no. 3; pp. 329 - 340 |
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American Public Health Association
Mar2024
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