thursday more this is how much money black women lose due to gender pay gap the chambers of commerce in each borough and the partnership for new york city an organization that represents the citys business leadership had unsuccessfully pushed for the law to exempt industries with severe labor shortages as well as only require minimum salary postings for highly compensated jobs new york city is a highly competitive labor market where most employers are committed to gender and racial pay parity they wrote in a joint letter in april arguing that the inclusion of a salary range is not necessarily the most appropriate tool for the new york labor market