Highlights of women's earnings in 2022
In 2022, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings that were 83 percent of those of male full-time wage and salary workers. In 1979, the first year for which comparable earnings data are available, women’s earnings were 62 percent of men’s earnings.

Most of the growth in women’s earnings relative to men’s occurred in the 1980s (when the women’s-to-men’s earnings ratio went from 64 percent to 70 percent) and from 1990 to 2003 (when the ratio went from 72 percent to 79 percent). Since 2004, the women’s-to-men’s earnings ratio has remained in the 80 to 83 percent range

Median household income in the United States in 2023, by race and ethnicity(in U.S. dollars)

Median household income by race and ethnicity U.S. 2...

Gender pay gap in U.S. hasn’t changed much in two decades

The gender gap in pay has remained relatively stable in the United States over the past 20 years or so. In 2022, women earned an average of 82% of what men earnedGender pay gap in U.S. hasn’t changed much in two de...

THOUGH THERE IS GENDER PAY GAP


The Enduring Grip of the Gender Pay Gap

The gender pay gap -- the difference between the earnings of men and women – has barely closed in the United States in the past two decades. In 2022, American women typically earned 82 cents for every dollar earned by men
The Enduring Grip of the Gender Pay Gap