Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2013

In 2013, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $706. On average in 2013, women made 82 percent of the median weekly earnings of male full time wage and salary workers ($860. In 1979, the first year for which comparable earnings data are available, women earned 62 percent of what men earned.This report presents earnings data from the Current Population Survey, a national monthly survey of approximately 60,000 households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Information on earnings is collected from one-forth of the CPS sample each month. It is important to note that the comparisons of earning in this report are on a broad level and do not control for many factor that can be significant in explain earnings differences.