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Gender Pay Ratio

Women’s median weekly earnings as a share of men’s, full-time workers, %

82.3% in Q2 2026+0.7 pp since Q2 2006

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 1 year

Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. Shaded: the range about two in three outcomes land in. A projection, not a promise.

Median weekly pay for women working full time, relative to men. The ratio rose quickly in the 1980s and has moved more slowly since.

What this chart reads

Sources

Gender Pay Ratio — Women's Median Weekly Earnings as % of Men's. Source: Computed by Palanor from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey series LES1252882700Q and LES1252881800Q, retrieved through FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Public domain (US government work); cite the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Recomputed monthly by the fred-composites job, which rewrites the full history so BLS revisions carry through.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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