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Bureau of Laobr Statistics

Reprot 1038

 

HIGHLIGHTS OF WOMEN'S EARNINGS IN 2011 [26 October 2012]

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswom2011.pdf

[full-text, 91 pages]

 

[excerpt]

In 2011, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $684, about 82 percent of median earnings for male full-time

wage and salary workers ($832). In 1979, the first year for which comparable earnings data are available, women earned 62 percent of what men earned.

 

Charts, Statistical Tables, and Technical Note

Charts

1. Women’s earnings as a percent of men’s, full-time wage and salary workers, 1979–2011 annual averages................6

2 Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 2011 annual averages….....................................6

3. Percent change in constant-dollar median usual weekly earnings, by educational attainment and sex,1979–2011.......................................................7

4. Distribution of full-time wage and salary employment, by sex and major occupation group,2011 annual averages..........................................................7

 

Statistical Tables

1. Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by selected characteristics, 2011 annual averages.................................................8

2. Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by detailed occupation and sex, 2011 annual averages.....................................10

3. Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by state and sex, 2011 annual averages.........36

4. Median usual weekly earnings of part-time wage and salary workers, by selected characteristics, 2011 annual averages.......................................38

5. Median usual weekly earnings of wage and salary workers, by hours usually worked and sex, 2011 annual averages.............................................40

6. Quartiles and selected deciles of usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by selected characteristics, 2011 annual averages......................42

7. Distribution of full-time wage and salary workers, by usual weekly earnings and selected characteristics, 2011 annual averages..............................................43

8. Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by sex, marital status, and presence and age of own children under 18 years old, 2011 annual averages......................45

9. Median hourly earnings of wage and salary workers paid hourly rates, by selected characteristics,2011 annual averages..................................................................46

10. Distribution of wage and salary workers paid hourly rates, by hourly earnings and selected characteristics, 2011 annual averages...........................................................48

11. Wage and salary workers paid hourly rates with earnings at or below the prevailing federal minimum wage, by selected characteristics, 2011 annual averages......................50

12. Wage and salary workers paid hourly rates with earnings at or below the prevailing federal minimum wage, by sex, 1979–2011 annual averages......................................52

13. Women’s earnings as a percent of men’s, by age, for full-time wage and salary workers, 1979–2011.......................55

14. Women’s earnings as a percent of men’s, by race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, for full-time wage and salary workers, 1979–2011....................................................56

15. Women’s earnings as a percent of men’s, by educational attainment, for full-time wage and salary workers25 years and older, 1979–2011..........................................57

16. Women’s earnings as a percent of men’s, by age, for wage and salary workers paid hourly rates,1979–2011.............................................................................58

17. Women’s earnings as a percent of men’s, by race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, for wage and salaryworkers paid hourly rates, 1979–2011......................................59

18. Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, in constant (2011) dollars, by sex and age, 1979–2011 annual averages................................................60

19. Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, in constant (2011) dollars, by sex,race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 1979–2011 annual averages.............................63

20. Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers 25 years and older, in constant (2011) dollars, by sex and educational attainment, 1979–2011 annual averages...................66

21. Median hourly earnings of wage and salary workers paid hourly rates, in constant (2011) dollars, by sex and age, 1979–2011 annual averages..............................................69

22. Median hourly earnings of wage and salary workers paid hourly rates, in constant (2011) dollars, by sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 1979–2011 annual averages.....................72

23. Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, in current dollars, by sex and age,1979–2011 annual averages...........................................................................75

24. Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, in current dollars, by sex, race,and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 1979–2011 annual averages.....................78

25. Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers 25 years and older, in current dollars,by sex and educational attainment, 1979–2011 annual averages..........................81

26. Median hourly earnings of wage and salary workers paid hourly rates, in current dollars, by sexand age, 1979–2011 annual averages.................................................84

27. Median hourly earnings of wage and salary workers paid hourly rates, in current dollars, by sex, race, andHispanic or Latino ethnicity, 1979–2011 annual averages...................87

Technical Note......................................................................................................................................................................90

 

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