Poor little Mika Brzezinski.....

[blackwater]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384769/Morning-Joes-Mika-Brzezinski-reveals-quit-gender-pay-gap.html

'I found out I was the lowest paid at the table': Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski reveals she almost quit over gender pay gap

By Daily Mail Reporter


Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski has revealed she almost quit the show after just a year because she was earning far less than her male colleagues.

The 44-year-old said she discovered she took home 14 times less than co-host Joe Scarborough - so little she struggled to make ends meet.

Ms Brzezinski makes the revelations in her new book, 'Knowing Your Value', in which she discusses how women can negotiate the salary they're worth.



The revelations come as her former CBS colleague, Katie Couric, is rumoured to be negotiating a $20million deal to move to ABC - despite complaining about sexism holding back her pay in the past.

In an interview about her book on Morning Joe, Ms Brzezinski revealed she planned to resign in 2008, after only 12 months on the show.

She said: 'I had found out I was the lowest paid at the table and sometimes by far.

'I didn't think I should be making more than any of you guys, but I thought I should have been a lot closer.



'Joe's the creator of the show, and so there's some obvious differences that can be built in, but these were vast.'

Ms Brzezinski joined MSNBC as a freelance reporter in 2007, after she was fired from CBS in a  'pretty ugly' dismissal.

She said she came 'crawling back into the business' and took a huge pay cut -  but then her money failed to go up when she became Morning Joe co-host a few months later.

She said: 'I realised instead of blaming it on MSNBC, it was me, that I didn't understand my value, and this was a common problem I'd had throughout my career... feeling like I was at the bottom of the barrel inside because of the deal I had cut for myself.'



In fact Ms Brzezinski discovered she was earning 14 times less than her co-host, Mr Scarborough.

She said: 'While he was coming from prime time, and he was worth a lot more, he's also the creator of the show, I was certainly not worth 14 less than him.'

In the book, she writes: 'Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

'Not only  was my salary lower than my colleagues’, each month was a financial scramble to make ends meet.

'After child care, on-air wardrobe, makeup, travel, and the other ridiculous expenses that women in this business end up taking on, the job was actually costing me more than I was being paid.'

When present Willie Geist asked her why she didn't walk away, she replied simply: 'We fixed it.'

It took Ms Brzezinski several tries to negotiate a better deal with her boss, Phil Griffin.
Pay struggle: Mika Brzezinski highlights how women find it hard to negotiate higher salaries in her new book

Pay struggle: Mika Brzezinski highlights how women find it hard to negotiate higher salaries in her new book

In an interview earlier this year, she told Marie Claire: 'My salary situation at Morning Joe wasn't right.

'I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.'

Just three out of the top ten best-paid news anchors in America are women.

Speaking to panellists Nora Ephron and Norah O'Donnell - who she interviewed for her book -  Ms Brzezinski said women find it difficult to negotiate a higher pay deal because they get 'embarrassed'.

It's not something her former colleague, Katie Couric, seems to have struggled with.

In 2008, she complained that sexism was holding back her salary as a CBS anchor, despite earning $15million a year.

Ms Couric confirmed she was leaving the channel last month, and is rumoured to be negotiating a $20million deal with ABC.

[Letsbereal]

Why I somehow don't give a damn?

I think she should be payed according to her two very good points, her in-breast huh ... her substance, weight. Oepz!



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[jofortruth]

Don't worry, Mika. Your daddy will take care of you. I know making only $2  million per year (or how ever many millions you make) as a tv personality is sooooo unfair!  


These people are sickening!

[Letsbereal]

Sorry folks, had to do it! The resemblance was simply just too cunning.

[Letsbereal]

Poor little Mika Brzezinski.....

[larsonstdoc]

Don't worry, Mika. Your daddy will take care of you. I know making only $2  million per year (or how ever many millions you make) as a tv personality is sooooo unfair!  


These people are sickening!

  Right on.  Papa Brzezinski has stolen more money from the American people that she can ever spend.

[chris jones]

 
 A paltry few million a year, the poor dear. Doesn't it hit a note, these MSM faces are raking the bucks, bought and paid for. MONEY$$$$
  I get the feeling at time they have forced themsleves to beleive their scripts convincing themselfs they are the winners., the Mafia never had it so good.  I worked with Brits (maritime)for years, some damn good men, the name they gave the hoods, gangsters, was-their a face. I bestow that name on our MSM little dalings. Just FACES on the elites suk straw. Dan Ratheres said, "Our present day MSM reporters need a spine transplant".
  Many moons ago I bodguarded for a wealthy man, without a rant they have a manservant to prepare their cothing and dress them, every aspect of royalty is at their fingertips, carde blanche in every aspect of life that is beyond the comman mans comprehension, it is not simply upper class, it is pure insanity.
  Tell me how could they possibley survive with out the slave population tending their every fK needs.
Ranted, sory, do that at times, its just that when a sukling complains who is raking in millions I have to wonder if they trulty consider the poor mans existance, in fact I am convinced they would susicide rather than join the re ranks of the peons. To be fair obout this, she did a great job bringing to light these script reading shiibags are earning million. These suklings are far from being in touch with the people, by choice.