Table 2: The Wage Gap in the 20 Most Common Occupations for Men (Full-Time Workers Only), 2012 
  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     Percent of all workers in this occupation
All full-time workers  80.9% 44.2% 57,286,000 45,462,000  
         
Carpenters  -  0.9% 1.3% 0.0% 0.7%
Automotive service technicians and mechanics  -  1.0% 1.2% 0.0% 0.7%
Construction laborers  - 2.6% 1.6% 0.1% 0.9%
Grounds maintenance workers  -  3.6% 1.3% 0.1% 0.8%
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers  73.0% 4.0% 4.2% 0.2% 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% 0.7%
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers  93.3% 18.6% 1.1% 0.3% 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% 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% 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% 2.3%
Retail salespersons  64.3% 38.4% 2.0% 1.6% 1.8%
First-line supervisors of retail sales workers  75.5% 42.6% 2.3% 2.1% 2.2%
Accountants and auditors  73.8% 60.2% 1.0% 1.9% 1.4%
All women and men: 
  Top 20 male occupations together 32.5% 14.2% 24.4%
67.7%