For Full-Time Workers, Women’s Earnings Are 81 Percent of Men’s. For Those Who Work Full or Part Time, the Gap Grows, and Women Are Paid About 76 Cents for Every Dollar Paid to Men.

Women’s earnings trail men’s within their same racial/ethnic group and compared to white men.

Median annual earnings of men and women by race/ethnicity, 2024

* Asian is included here as one category because disaggregated data for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander people separately has not yet been released; historically, median earnings have been lower for some subgroups.
Source: Institute for Women’s Policy Research, September 2025. See tables 1 and 2, based on U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (2025). Get the dataDownload image