Gender Pay Gap in US – On average in 2013, women made 82 percent of the median weekly earnings of male full-time wage and salary workers BLS finds

In 2013, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $706. On average in 2013, women made 82 percent of the median weekly earnings of male full-time wage and salary workers ($860). In 1979, the first year for which comparable earnings data are available, women earned 62 percent of what men earned.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at Highlights of women’s earnings in 2013 (December 2014)