title: Racial and ethnic differences in physician assistant salaries.
abstract: Two recent reports using different data sets concluded that female physician assistants (PAs) earn substantially less than male PAs. Similar data comparing the effect of race and ethnicity on salary have not been compiled. This article examines the possibility of racial and ethnic salary disparities in PA salaries using data from the 2009 survey of members of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.
authors.affiliation: Cardell K. Jacobson is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Brigham Young University in Utah. Darron T. Smith is an assistant professor in the PA program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. The authors disclose that this study was supported by a research grant from the Physician Assistant Education Association.
authors.forename: Cardell K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Jacobson
authors.forename: Darron T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000367:Age Factors; D001213:Asian / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010823:Physician Assistants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012737:Sex Factors; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data