Figure 1. The Gender Earnings Ratio for Full-Time and All Workers with Earnings, 1960–2025
Sources: 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 ratios: Table 37, “Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by selected characteristics,” annual averages; https://www.bls.gov/cps/tables.htm and
Table 17, “Inflation-adjusted median usual weekly earnings, by age, for full-time wage and salary workers, 1979–2024,” annual averages (in constant 2025 dollars); US Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Highlights of women’s earnings in 2024,” BLS Reports 1117, January 2026, https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/womens-earnings/2024/home.htm accessed September 15, 2026.
Notes: 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 years and older and are not restricted to full-year workers. Full-time is working for at least 35 hours per week, full-year is working for at least 50 weeks per year.
Notes: 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 years and older and are not restricted to full-year workers. Full-time is working for at least 35 hours per week, full-year is working for at least 50 weeks per year.
