The impact of sexual orientation has on the payroll varies from country to country, but the trend is clear: heterosexual men earn more than gay men, while lesbians earn more than heterosexual women.

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In the U.S, gay men earns on average 16 percent less than their heterosexual counterparts, according to an article from research institute IZA in Germany.

Lesbians earns however nine percent more on average than heterosexual women. That shows an overview of 29 studies from Europe and the United States made by Marieka Klawitter from the University of Washington, who was recently featured in The Economist.

There has not been similar studies in Norway, but I see no reason to believe that there are different here in Norway, says Arne Backer Grønningsæter, senior researcher at the research foundation FAFO.

In 2013 he wrote a report about lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people in the workplace.

Swedish researchers have looked at the same issue. In 2013 found Ali Ahmed, Lina Andersson and Mats Hammarstedt out that Swedish, heterosexual men earned more than gay men – and lesbians earned more than heterosexual women.

Read more at forskning.no

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