Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2007
Permanent linkIn 2007, women who were full-time wage and salary workers
had median weekly earnings of $614, or about 80 percent of
the $766 median for their male counterparts. This ratio has
grown since 1979 (the fi rst year for which comparable earnings
data are available), when women earned about 62 percent as much
as men. (See chart 1 and tables 1 and 12.)
This report presents earnings data from the Current Population
Survey (CPS), 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-fourth of the CPS sample each month. Readers should
note that the comparisons of earnings in this report are on a broad
level and do not control for many factors that can be signifi cant
in explaining earnings differences. For a detailed description of
the source of the data and an explanation of the concepts and
definitions used, see the accompanying technical note.
