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BLS REPORT 1045 October 2013

 

HIGHLIGHTS OF WOMEN'S EARNINGS IN 2012 [28 October 2013]

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswom2012.pdf

[full-text, 91 pages]

 

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. (See chart 1 and tables 1 and 12.)

 

This report presents data highlights and statistical tables of earnings data from the Current Population Survey

(CPS), a national monthly survey of approximately 60,000 households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Information on earnings is collected from one-fourth of the CPS sample

each month. It is important to note that the comparisons of earnings in this report are on a broad level and do

not control for many factors that can be significant in explaining earnings differences. For a detailed description

of the source of the data and an explanation of the concepts and definitions used in this report, see the accompanying

technical notes section.

 

CONTENTS

Earnings of full-time workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Age. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Race and ethnicity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Occupation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Status as a parent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

State of residence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Weekly work hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Earnings of part-time workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Earnings of workers paid by the hour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Statistical Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Technical Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

 

 

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