| 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% | |||||||