Table
2: The Wage Gap in the 20 Most Common Occupations for Men (Full-Time Workers
Only), 2012 |
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Women's earnings as percent
of men's |
Women as
Percent of Workers in Occupation |
Percent of all male workers in this occupation |
Percent of all female workers in this occupation |
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Percent
of all workers in this occupation |
All full-time workers |
80.9% |
44.2% |
57,286,000 |
45,462,000 |
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Carpenters |
- |
0.9% |
1.3% |
0.0% |
|
0.7% |
Automotive
service technicians and mechanics |
- |
1.0% |
1.2% |
0.0% |
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0.7% |
Construction laborers |
- |
2.6% |
1.6% |
0.1% |
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0.9% |
Grounds maintenance
workers |
- |
3.6% |
1.3% |
0.1% |
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0.8% |
Driver/sales
workers and truck drivers |
73.0% |
4.0% |
4.2% |
0.2% |
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2.4% |
Laborers
and freight, stock, and material movers, hand |
91.7% |
16.5% |
1.9% |
0.5% |
|
1.3% |
First-line
supervisors of production and operating workers |
70.6% |
18.0% |
1.0% |
0.3% |
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0.7% |
Security
guards and gaming surveillance officers |
93.3% |
18.6% |
1.1% |
0.3% |
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0.7% |
Software
developers, applications and systems software |
81.4% |
19.6% |
1.4% |
0.4% |
|
1.0% |
Janitors and building
cleaners |
79.8% |
25.1% |
2.0% |
0.8% |
|
1.5% |
Sales
representatives, wholesale and manufacturing |
70.8% |
26.1% |
1.4% |
0.6% |
|
1.0% |
Production workers, all
other |
81.4% |
26.3% |
1.1% |
0.5% |
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0.8% |
Chief executives |
76.0% |
26.4% |
1.3% |
0.6% |
|
1.0% |
General and operations
managers |
67.6% |
28.3% |
1.2% |
0.6% |
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0.9% |
Cooks |
89.6% |
32.9% |
1.5% |
0.9% |
|
1.2% |
Stock clerks and order
fillers |
93.8% |
33.1% |
1.1% |
0.7% |
|
0.9% |
Managers, all other |
76.5% |
38.1% |
2.6% |
2.0% |
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2.3% |
Retail salespersons |
64.3% |
38.4% |
2.0% |
1.6% |
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1.8% |
First-line
supervisors of retail sales workers |
75.5% |
42.6% |
2.3% |
2.1% |
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2.2% |
Accountants and auditors |
73.8% |
60.2% |
1.0% |
1.9% |
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1.4% |
All women and men: |
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Top 20 male occupations together |
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32.5% |
14.2% |
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24.4% |
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67.7% |
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