Men are making more than women in side hustles, too, says Bankrate survey

“If you look at studies that control for age, education, race, occupation,” says Valle-Gutierrez, “looking within the same occupation and controlling for all those factors, there’s still a wage gap.” Women are getting paid less to do the same job. On average, women make 84 cents to a man’s dollar, according to the National Women’s Law Center.