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Women’s salaries rise but still lag behind men’s

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new analysis by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that over the past 35 years, while women’s salaries rose faster than men’s at the highest level of wage earners, women still lag significantly behind men.

 

In fact, female wage earners at all levels still trail men on average, according to Census Bureau statistics.

 

The Census Bureau, which tracked wages from 1979 to 2014, found that wages for female workers, on average, increased 30 percent over that time while men’s wages change little. Women’s real median weekly earnings went up from $553 in 1979 to $719 in 2014, but still averaged lower than most workers. In fact, in every category of wage earner, women’s wages lagged behind men’s across that 35-year period.

In the highest-paid earners category, pay for women went up 67 percent, compared with 34 percent for men in that category.

 

Real weekly earnings have increased among the lowest-paid women, whereas they have decreased for men in that wage category.