"income discrepancy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the difference between the incomes of two or more people or groups. For example: "The income discrepancy between the two countries is cause for concern."
But she said Terryville's newer developments with higher-priced homes probably accounted for the income discrepancy.
There is a vast income discrepancy between the few gaudy rich and the many poor, still living in makeshift slums, displaced by years of war.
Though they are inheriting a country still burdened with inequality and violence (South Africa has one of the five highest levels of income discrepancy in the world and one of the highest violent crime rates), this generation is hopeful.
This income discrepancy exists despite the fact that most postdocs work full-time and, for those in academic settings, for the entire academic year or more.
Offsetting that million-dollar income discrepancy is the $46,700 four-year cost of tuition, fees, books, room and board at a public school and $99,900 at a private one even after financial aid, scholarships and grants.
All this means that well over half of North American couples will be dealing with an income gap, and are having to factor in income discrepancy issues into their relationship.
Even though the income discrepancies between, say, the movie's grip and the star are stunningly lopsided, such inequities escape public scorn.
The results from 2009 and 2012 are not directly comparable for several reasons: 1) Income, working hours, discrepancy between preferred and actual list size and discrepancy between preferred and actual working hours were not included as covariates in Halvorsen et al. Data on these variables were not collected in the 2009 survey.
Some of my clients who get their money from unearned income find this discrepancy unbelievable when they compare their federal taxes to their state bills.
For the same reason that investors consider large disparities between a company's reported earnings and its retained earnings to be a sign of potential income overstatement, large discrepancies between free cash flow and Ebitda can be a red flag for alert money managers and investors.
For example, despite an encouraging reduction over recent years, the maternal mortality rate in Africa is 480 per 100,000 live births, as opposed to 14 per 100,000 in high-income countries; the discrepancy is about the same for mortality rates in children under 5 years of age (107/1,000 vs. 6/1,000, respectively) (6).
