The Talent Docket: July 12, 2016

Today’s top talent-related stories from around the web.

The gender pay gap applies to doctors, too. According to a newly released analysis profiled by the New York Times, Female physicians at some of the nation’s most prominent public medical schools earn nearly $20,000 less a year on average than their male colleagues.

Starbucks is set to give many of its U.S. employees raises of as much as 5 percent or more, as the coffee chain aims to reward workers amid a tightening labor market, reports the Wall Street Journal (Paywall). The raises go into effect October 3 and includes workers at the company’s wholly owned stories, which make up about 60 percent of its roughly 12,000.

Speaking of raises, JPMorgan Chase & Co. is also raising its minimum pay, CEO Jamie Dimon wrote in an editorial for the New York Times. The leader of the biggest U.S. bank by assets wrote in the piece that it will raise its minimum pay for 18,000 overtime-eligible U.S. employees from $10.15 an hour to between $12.00 and $16.50 an hour depending on market factors over the next three years.

Mobsters who went to college made more money than their less-educated mafia friends, reports Quartz, citing a study from the University of Essex and University of California-Merced using U.S. census data.