BLS: Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2009

Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2009, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2010, Report 1025

  • “In 2009, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median weekly earnings of $657, or about 80 percent of the $819 median for their male counterparts. In 1979, the first year for which comparable earnings data are available, women earned about 62 percent as much as men. After a gradual rise in the 1980s and 1990s, the women’s-to-men’s earnings ratio peaked at 81 percent in 2005 and 2006.”
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