E! Host Quits Job After Discovering Male Co-Host Makes “Double” Her Salary
Catt Sadler, a longtime E! News host who has worked for the network for over a decade, has announced..
Catt Sadler, a longtime E! News host who has worked for the network for over a decade, has announced that she is leaving her job due to a reportedly exorbitant wage gap between herself and a male colleague. In a lengthy personal statement posted on her Web site, Sadler said she made her decision to quit after finding out about the disparity and asking E! for an equivalent raise multiple times—a request that was “repeatedly denied,” she wrote. According to People, the male co-host Sadler was referring to was Jason Kennedy.
“How can I operate with integrity and stay on at E if they’re not willing to pay me the same as him?” Sadler wrote on her site. “Or at least come close? How can I accept an offer that shows they do not value my contributions and paralleled dedication all these years?”
In the essay, she described her hectic year, noting that she was hosting E! News as well as the new spin-off daytime series Daily Pop. “It was creatively challenging but genuinely one of the most fulfilling years of my professional career,” she wrote.
However, it was around this time that an E! executive told her about the reported wage disparity between herself and Kennedy. “More recently, when E reached out to renew and extend my deal, I learned that he wasn’t just making a little more than I was,” she noted. “In fact, he was making close to double my salary for the past several years.”
Representatives for E! sent People the following statement: “E! compensates employees fairly and appropriately based on their roles, regardless of gender. We appreciate Catt Sadler’s many contributions at E! News and wish her all the best following her decision to leave the network.”
Kennedy also tweeted a goodbye message for Sadler on her last day, writing that he was “really going to miss” her.
As Sadler pointed out in her statement, this year has been an extraordinary one for women speaking their truth and shaking up Hollywood power structures. That is, in part, what inspired her to quit her job: “The way I see it, I have an obligation to be an agent for change . . . this chapter is over and a new one begins.”
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