The Best US States for Women's Pay
ForbesWoman focuses on wages but we rank by gender gap, too
State |
Women's median wkly wage |
Gender gap |
Gap rank among top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
National |
$638 |
80% |
- |
D.C. (Washington) |
$866 |
92.2% |
1 |
Maryland |
$774 |
83.6% |
3 |
Connecticut |
$772 |
73% |
10 |
Massachusetts |
$762 |
76% |
8 |
California |
$738 |
86.6% |
2 |
New Jersey |
$726 |
77.1% |
7 |
Alaska |
$719 |
74.1% |
9 |
Minnesota |
$717 |
81.1.% |
4 |
Washington |
$709 |
77.5% |
6 |
Colorado |
$693 |
78.9% |
5 |
- In the last column, we shuffled ForbesWoman’s top 10 states by their gender gaps, removing the bias of high-cost, high-pay states (eg Alaska). Forbes’ ranking are based on median weekly pay as reported by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Though technically not a state, Washington, DC, ranked highest in large part because of the large number of high-paying federal government jobs. And while ForbesWoman did not mention it, government restrictions on gender inequality for like work probably have a lot to do with the small gender gap. That advantage probably helped neighbouring Maryland.
- In general, the worst pay for women and the biggest gender gaps were in the West (except California and Washington, obviously) and the South.
- Mississippi was the worst state for women’s wages, with a median weekly wage of $510, for 75% of correspondent men’s wages. But 12 ranks higher is Louisiana, with a wage gap of 72.7%.
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