July 08, 2010

Women's-to-men's earnings ratio by age, 2009

Women's earnings as a percent of men's, median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by age, 1979�2009
Year	Total, 16 years and older	16 to 24 years	25 to 34 years
1979	62.3	78.6	67.5
1980	64.2	80.3	69.4
1981	64.4	82.6	70.3
1982	65.7	85.3	72.1
1983	66.5	88.8	73.3
1984	67.6	87.9	74.6
1985	68.1	87.6	75.1
1986	69.5	89.0	76.1
1987	69.8	88.3	76.7
1988	70.2	89.7	77.7
1989	70.1	90.8	78.3
1990	71.9	90.1	79.3
1991	74.2	93.3	81.0
1992	75.8	94.0	82.0
1993	77.1	94.8	83.0
1994	76.4	93.9	82.9
1995	75.5	90.8	82.2
1996	75.0	92.5	83.2
1997	74.4	92.1	82.9
1998	76.3	91.3	82.9
1999	76.5	91.0	81.5
2000	76.9	91.7	82.4
2001	76.4	90.3	83.0
2002	77.9	93.9	84.5
2003	79.4	93.2	86.9
2004	80.4	93.8	87.8
2005	81.0	93.2	89.0
2006	80.8	94.5	88.2
2007	80.2	92.3	86.9
2008	79.9	91.1	88.5
2009	80.2	92.6	88.7

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