Families depend on women’s wages more than ever, but women working full time, year-round are typically paid less than men working full time, year-round in every state. Nationally, women working full time, year-round typically are paid only 83 cents for every dollar a man is paid, and the size of the disparity varies by state.
However, the wage gap for full-time, year-round workers doesn’t fully reflect the economic disparities faced by women. The full-time, year-round wage gap leaves out those who were unemployed or out of the labor force for part of 2023, or who worked part time, even if they wanted full-time work. When part-time and part-year workers are included in the comparison, women were typically paid only 75 cents for every dollar paid to men in 2023, and the size of the disparity varies widely by state.