PAY INEQUITY

Full-time, year-around working women earned only 77.5 cents for each dollar a man earned in 2007.

Men         $44,255
Women    $34,278
Wage Gap 77.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey Reports, ACS-09, Income Earnings, and Poverty Data from the 2007 American Community Survey  

 
Full-time, year- around working employees across race and gender in 2007:

Race/Gender Earnings Wage Ratio
White Men $47,113 100%
White Women $35,542 75.4%
Black Men $35,652 75.7%
Black Women $31,035 65.0%
Hispanic Men $29,239 62.1%
Hispanic Women $25,454 54.0 %

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey Reports, ACS-09, Income Earnings, and Poverty Data from the 2007 American Community Survey

  • Women in prestigious executive, administrative and managerial occupations earned 72.3% of what men earned.  
    Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, October 2008, Report 1008
  • Women in professional specialty occupations earned 72.7% of what men earned. 
    Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, October 2008, Report 1008
  • The median weekly earnings of women who were full-time wage and salary workers were $638, or 80 percent of men’s $798.

    Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau, Employment and Earnings, 2008 Annual Averages  

Historical Statistics – ERA is currently looking for updated data in these categories 

  • Women earned less than men in 99% of all occupations for which data is available.   
    Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1997 Annual Averages
  • 76.8% of women who were medicine and health managers earned 74% of what men earned.  
    Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau, “Equal Pay: A Thirty-Five Year Perspective,” July 10, 1998


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