In Puerto Rico, No Gap in Median Earnings Between Men and Women

The gender-based wage gap in the United States has narrowed in recent years, but disparities remain: national median earnings for civilians who worked full-time, year-round in the past 12 months was $53,544 for men compared to $43,394 for women, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey (ACS).

There are a multitude of factors that may contribute to earnings differences between women and men: age, number of hours worked, presence of children, and education. The types of jobs women and men hold, and the earnings difference among these occupations also contribute to gaps in overall earnings.

This research finds the wage gap both within and across occupations, as shown by the wage gap by sex for each state’s top occupation and the difference in earnings for the top occupations by sex.

A new visualization tool depicts the gender-based wage gap at the state level using 2019 ACS and 2019 Puerto Rico Community Survey data. The wage gap data visualization highlights the top occupation and the three top occupations for men and women for each state by count of workers.****

Equal Pay Day — timed to represent how far into the year women must work to equal what men earned the previous year — is on March 15 this year. That’s earlier than it’s ever been since its inception in 1996. Last year, it occurred on March 24.

In 2020, women earned 83 cents to every dollar earned by men. In addition to Women’s History Month, it is an important reminder that the gender pay gap is narrowing but continues.

By highlighting the selected top occupations by sex at the state level, we can identify areas with different labor market opportunities based on gender in the United States. The data reflect the 570 occupations classified by the ACS.

Additional information specifies earnings and the percentage of workforce by sex for each state’s top selected occupations by count of workers. We also detail earnings by sex at the state level for those interested in the wage gap by sex, highlighting the difference between median earnings of men and women ages 16 years and older who worked full-time, year-round in the past 12 months.

<div id="titlecore-4ae0b663f0"

Where this page came from

This page was imported from U.S. Census Bureau. Published by the U.S. Census Bureau and, as a work of the United States government, in the public domain; material credited to others is left out.

Nobody has written it yet — it is the source material at a new address, which is why search engines are asked to skip it and why no one earns from it. It is up for grabs: take it on, and it is yours to rewrite and to earn from.