April 17, 2019

Raw Data: Usual Weekly Earnings for Men and Women

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its quarterly estimate of usual weekly earnings yesterday. So how are women doing these days?

For a few years it looked like women were making a bit of progress, but that’s disappeared. Their relative earnings have been drifting down since 2017 and are now 80.6 percent of men’s earnings.

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