States With the Biggest Gender Wage Gaps

Mind the gap – it’s more than $12,000 wide. That’s the difference between the annual median earnings of full-time male and female workers across the U.S., according to the latest data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey. Among civilians working full time in 2023, the year of the most recent data, women’s median earnings were $52,458, while men’s median earnings were $64,705. That means that for every dollar that the typical man earned, the typical woman earned about 81 cents.

Equal Pay Day attempts to put that gap into perspective. The symbolic day alludes to roughly how far into the next year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. This year, Equal Pay Day falls on March 25, or 84 days into the year, according to the American Association of University Women.

These are the 10 states with the largest gender wage gaps, represented as cents made by women for every dollar made by a man:
STATE ----------------GENDER WAGE GAP
Louisiana-------------71 cents
Utah---------------------73 cents
Alabama--------------74 cents
Wyoming--------------74 cents
North Dakota--------75 cents
Idaho---------------------76 cents
New Hampshire-----76 cents
Montana-----------------76 cents
Mississippi-------------78 cents
Oklahoma---------------78 cents

These are the 10 states with the smallest gender wage gaps, represented as cents made by women for every dollar made by a man:
STATE ----‐‐------------- GENDER WAGE GAP
Rhode Island-----------89 cents
Vermont--------‐---------88 cents
New York-----------------87 cents
California-----------------87 cents
Hawaii----------------------87 cents
Delaware------------------87 cents
Maryland------------------86 cents
District of Columbia-86 cents
Massachusetts--------86 cents
Maine-----------------------85 cents

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