Chart 1. Log-wage differential between nonprofit and for-profit sectors, 1994–2022
Year Unadjusted Adjusted
95-percent confidence interval lower bound Point estimate 95-percent confidence interval upper bound 95-percent confidence interval lower bound Point estimate 95-percent confidence interval upper bound

1994

0.0653 0.0777 0.0901 -0.0701 -0.0493 -0.0286

1995

0.0621 0.0744 0.0868 -0.0617 -0.0482 -0.0346

1996

0.0450 0.0587 0.0725 -0.0615 -0.0506 -0.0396

1997

0.0464 0.0598 0.0732 -0.0561 -0.0454 -0.0346

1998

0.0460 0.0592 0.0724 -0.0638 -0.0532 -0.0426

1999

0.0339 0.0473 0.0607 -0.0577 -0.0468 -0.0360

2000

0.0376 0.0510 0.0645 -0.0472 -0.0363 -0.0253

2001

0.0360 0.0489 0.0618 -0.0575 -0.0470 -0.0365

2002

0.0504 0.0626 0.0748 -0.0480 -0.0381 -0.0281

2003

0.0466 0.0589 0.0711 -0.0635 -0.0535 -0.0435

2004

0.0562 0.0685 0.0808 -0.0702 -0.0601 -0.0501

2005

0.0645 0.0769 0.0893 -0.0688 -0.0587 -0.0487

2006

0.0812 0.0937 0.1061 -0.0569 -0.0467 -0.0366

2007

0.0840 0.0966 0.1092 -0.0592 -0.0489 -0.0385

2008

0.0726 0.0853 0.0981 -0.0685 -0.0582 -0.0479

2009

0.0930 0.1057 0.1185 -0.0641 -0.0538 -0.0435

2010

0.0994 0.1124 0.1254 -0.0614 -0.0510 -0.0405

2011

0.0986 0.1118 0.1251 -0.0555 -0.0449 -0.0342

2012

0.1032 0.1166 0.1299 -0.0539 -0.0433 -0.0326

2013

0.1050 0.1186 0.1322 -0.0538 -0.0431 -0.0323

2014

0.1106 0.1245 0.1383 -0.0620 -0.0508 -0.0397

2015

0.0951 0.1094 0.1237 -0.0535 -0.0419 -0.0303

2016

0.1023 0.1166 0.1310 -0.0679 -0.0564 -0.0448

2017

0.0908 0.1050 0.1191 -0.0594 -0.0480 -0.0366

2018

0.0827 0.0973 0.1120 -0.0591 -0.0471 -0.0352

2019

0.0872 0.1021 0.1170 -0.0640 -0.0519 -0.0399

2020

0.0756 0.0912 0.1068 -0.0719 -0.0592 -0.0464

2021

0.0753 0.0915 0.1076 -0.0755 -0.0622 -0.0490

2022

0.0512 0.0671 0.0831 -0.0721 -0.0591 -0.0460

Note: Sample includes employed wage and salary workers, ages 16 and over, and excludes workers with allocated earnings and hourly wages in the bottom and top 0.5 percent of wages. The adjusted wage-premium model includes the following controls (number of categories shown in parentheses): education (6), female, union membership, potential experience and its square, female interacted with potential experience and its square, race or ethnic status (5), region (8), metropolitan population size (6), hours-worked category (2), detailed occupation (451), and broad industry (21).

Source: Current Population Survey outgoing-rotation-group earnings files, 1994–2022.