Table 3. The Gender Wage Ratio and Real Earnings, 1960–2025, Full-Time Workers and All Workers with Earnings (in 2025 Dollars)
Source: Annual earnings ratios: Melissa Kollar and Zach Scherer, “Table 12. Number and Real Median Earnings of Total Workers and Full-Time, Year-Round Workers by Sex and Female-to-Male Earnings Ratio: 1960 to 2025,” Income in the United Sates: 2025 (Washington, DC: US Census Bureau, 2026), https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2026/demo/income-poverty/p60-289.html. Weekly earnings ratio: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Highlights of Women’s Earnings, “Table 17. Inflation-adjusted median usual weekly earnings, by age, for full-time wage and salary workers, 1979-2024 annual average,” Current Population Survey, accessed September 15, 2026 (Washington, DC: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026), https://www.bls.gov/cps/earnings.htm; US Bureau of Labor Statistics,“ Consumer Price Index: CPI-UR-S Home Page,” https://www.bls.gov/cpi/research-series/r-cpi-u-rs-home.htm accessed September 15, 2026.
Notes: The gender earnings ratio is women's earnings to men's earnings. Annual earnings data include self-employed workers; weekly data are for wage and salary workers only. Annual earnings are for people aged 15 years and older beginning in 1980 and people aged 14 years and older in previous years. Before 1989, annual earnings are for civilian workers only. Weekly earnings are for full-time civilian workers aged 16 and older and are not restricted to full-year workers and inflation adjusted using the BLS Consumer Price Index. Full-time is working for at least 35 hours per week, full-year is working for at least 50 weeks per year. Annual median earnings data are typically released in September by the US Census Bureau, and the annual average of weekly median earnings in February by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Both data series are derived from the Current Population Survey.
Notes: The gender earnings ratio is women's earnings to men's earnings. Annual earnings data include self-employed workers; weekly data are for wage and salary workers only. Annual earnings are for people aged 15 years and older beginning in 1980 and people aged 14 years and older in previous years. Before 1989, annual earnings are for civilian workers only. Weekly earnings are for full-time civilian workers aged 16 and older and are not restricted to full-year workers and inflation adjusted using the BLS Consumer Price Index. Full-time is working for at least 35 hours per week, full-year is working for at least 50 weeks per year. Annual median earnings data are typically released in September by the US Census Bureau, and the annual average of weekly median earnings in February by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Both data series are derived from the Current Population Survey.
