The Gender Pay Gap In The U.S.

By Yichen Yu



Pay Gap by Industries

The statitics are selected from the 20 most common occupations for women in the industry in the United States in 2018. For example, in 2018, female in the information industries earned on average 993 U.S. dollars per week, while their male counterparts earned 1270 U.S. dollars and the wage gap between genders is 277 U.S. dollars. These industries above are ranked descendingly by the gap of median weekly earnings between female and male, and only top ten of them are selected to display. The gender pay gap of fianance and insurance industry is the largest, which is 577 U.S. dollars. Followed by is professional and technical servives, which has a 446 U.S. dollars gap of media weekly pay and so on.


Pay Gap by Time

This statistic shows the female to male earnings ratio in the U.S. from 2000 to 2019, based on earnings in 2019 CPI-U-RS adjusted dollars. The ratio in 2019 was 82.3 percent, which indicates that a regular female worker earns about 82 percent of the amount a male employee in the same position would receive. Though the ratio shows a trend of growing, it grows in a very slow pace. After almost 20 years from 2000, the ratio grows less than 10%. It's unreasonable that a woman who is doing the same job as a man, with the exact same qualifications as a man, is still paid two percent less for no attributable reason.


Pay Gap by Race

This statistic shows the median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers in the United States by gender and ethnicity in 2019. The graph sorts in ascending order that the gender pay gap for Hispanic or Latino is the smallest while the gender pay gap for black or African American is the largest. In black or African American, male earns around 332 U.S. dollars more than female every week. However, when counting both race and gender as factors, the largest pay gap is between Asian male and Hispanic or Latino female.


Pay Gap by State

The statistic shows the female to male earnings ratio in the U.S. in 2019, based on the median income of full-time workers in U.S. dollars. For example, in 2019, Vermont had the highest earnings ratio for women as female workers earned 91.03 percent of their male counterparts on average. The pay gap varies from state to state, too – often because of those individual states' economies as well as the laws those states have in place to discourage and punish wage discrimination.


Big Data: 564 Occupations Median Weekly Wage

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