New Data Released: Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2012

Introduction:

In 2012, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $691. On average in 2012, women made about 81 percent of the median earnings of male full-time wage and salary workers ($854). In 1979, the first year for which comparable earnings data are available, women earned 62 percent of what men earned.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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