From the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
June 2010
Report 1025
BLS
Introduction
In 2009, women who were full-time wage and salary workers
had median weekly earnings of $657, or about 80 percent of
the $819 median for their male counterparts. In 1979, the fi rst
year for which comparable earnings data are available, women
earned about 62 percent as much as men. After a gradual rise in
the 1980s and 1990s, the women's-to-men's earnings ratio peaked
at 81 percent in 2005 and 2006. (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
defi nitions used, see the accompanying technical note.
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