Chart 2. Log-wage differential between nonprofit and public 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

-0.1508 -0.1371 -0.1235 -0.0521 -0.0285 -0.0049

1995

-0.1494 -0.1357 -0.1219 -0.0501 -0.0344 -0.0188

1996

-0.1789 -0.1635 -0.1482 -0.0687 -0.0562 -0.0436

1997

-0.1657 -0.1507 -0.1357 -0.0620 -0.0495 -0.0370

1998

-0.1564 -0.1416 -0.1267 -0.0620 -0.0495 -0.0370

1999

-0.1599 -0.1449 -0.1298 -0.0528 -0.0402 -0.0275

2000

-0.1503 -0.1351 -0.1199 -0.0574 -0.0447 -0.0319

2001

-0.1370 -0.1223 -0.1076 -0.0512 -0.0389 -0.0266

2002

-0.1255 -0.1117 -0.0979 -0.0537 -0.0420 -0.0302

2003

-0.1348 -0.1208 -0.1068 -0.0567 -0.0447 -0.0327

2004

-0.1330 -0.1189 -0.1049 -0.0534 -0.0414 -0.0295

2005

-0.1299 -0.1158 -0.1017 -0.0604 -0.0484 -0.0364

2006

-0.1111 -0.0969 -0.0827 -0.0535 -0.0413 -0.0291

2007

-0.1117 -0.0973 -0.0829 -0.0547 -0.0424 -0.0301

2008

-0.1164 -0.1018 -0.0873 -0.0633 -0.0508 -0.0384

2009

-0.1036 -0.0891 -0.0746 -0.0596 -0.0473 -0.0349

2010

-0.1200 -0.1051 -0.0902 -0.0685 -0.0559 -0.0433

2011

-0.1233 -0.1082 -0.0930 -0.0561 -0.0432 -0.0302

2012

-0.1073 -0.0920 -0.0766 -0.0618 -0.0488 -0.0358

2013

-0.1048 -0.0891 -0.0734 -0.0526 -0.0394 -0.0261

2014

-0.0946 -0.0787 -0.0627 -0.0594 -0.0455 -0.0317

2015

-0.1092 -0.0927 -0.0762 -0.0653 -0.0510 -0.0367

2016

-0.0806 -0.0641 -0.0475 -0.0494 -0.0352 -0.0209

2017

-0.0843 -0.0679 -0.0516 -0.0499 -0.0357 -0.0215

2018

-0.0689 -0.0519 -0.0350 -0.0457 -0.0309 -0.0162

2019

-0.0558 -0.0386 -0.0213 -0.0459 -0.0309 -0.0160

2020

-0.0580 -0.0400 -0.0220 -0.0505 -0.0345 -0.0186

2021

-0.0571 -0.0385 -0.0199 -0.0618 -0.0453 -0.0289

2022

-0.0555 -0.0370 -0.0185 -0.0577 -0.0413 -0.0249

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.