The gender pay hole stays alive and nicely in Hollywood, at the least in response to Pleasure Reid, who stated she was paid a fraction of what her fellow MSNBC hosts earned regardless of drawing greater scores.
Talking on the Martha’s Winery African American Movie Pageant’s C-Suite Soirée on August 7, as reported by Individuals, Reid mirrored on her tenure on the cable information community, the place she served as a nationwide correspondent for MSNBC following the cancellation of her afternoon present The Reid Report in early 2015. She started internet hosting The ReidOut in 2020 till it was canceled final February.
“The curse of competency means you’re one of the best particular person at what you do,” Reid informed the founding father of social impression consulting agency Full Circle Methods Jotaka Eaddy, relaying a dialog she’d had about office points. “You realize greater than everybody else since you’ve needed to do extra work and extra analysis to get the place you might be, and so due to this fact you’re the one everyone calls.”
“Which suggests,” she continued, “that as a result of you’re the greatest at it, you really work the toughest, do probably the most hours, work probably the most additional time, and don’t receives a commission commensurate to the quantity of labor you do.”
Reid spoke about pay disparities not solely all through her profession but additionally throughout her time at MSNBC.
“I labored in a enterprise the place I used to be paid a tenth of the wage of people that did actually my similar job, the entire time I labored there,” she stated of MSNBC. “And we knew that any man that was doing what I used to be doing was going to make greater than me. And that they had been going to have the ability to negotiate greater salaries, even at decrease scores.”
Reid went on to say that her male counterparts are likely to have it simpler as they “much less hours and make greater than us, get greater raises, extra alternatives, and extra grace. That is the world we stay in.”
The ReidOut cancellation occurred as a part of a sweeping lineup restructuring below new MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler, who took management in early 2025. In accordance with experiences, the community aimed to revamp its primetime technique and develop news-gathering operations. Pleasure Reid’s 7 p.m. slot was changed with a brand new panel present, The Weeknight.
Reid could be discovered on The Pleasure Reid Present on YouTube, the place she provides her unfiltered opinions on information, popular culture, politics, and occasions shaping at present’s world.