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<jats:sec><jats:title>Objective</jats:title><jats:p>To examine whether racial, gender, and ethnic salary disparities exist in the physician assistant (<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">PA</jats:styled-content>) profession and what factors, if any, are associated with the differentials.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Data Sources/Study Setting</jats:title><jats:p>We use a nationally representative survey of 15,105 <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">PA</jats:styled-content>s from the American Academy of Physician Assistants (<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">AAPA</jats:styled-content>).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Study Design</jats:title><jats:p>We use bivariate and multivariate statistics to analyze pay differentials from the 2009 <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">AAPA</jats:styled-content> survey.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Principle Findings</jats:title><jats:p>Women represent nearly two‐thirds of the profession but receive approximately $18,000 less in primary compensation. The differential reduces to just over $9,500 when the analysis includes a variety of other variables. According to <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">AAPA</jats:styled-content> survey, minority <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">PA</jats:styled-content>s tend to make slightly higher salaries than White <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">PA</jats:styled-content>s nationally, although the differences are not statistically significant once the control variables are included in the analysis.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>Despite the rough parity in primary salary, <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">PA</jats:styled-content>s of color are vastly underrepresented in the profession. The salaries of women lag in comparison to their male counterparts.</jats:p></jats:sec>