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The gap between what men and women in the US earn recently widened for the first time in two decades, according to a Census Bureau report drawing on 2023 data.
Men working full-time, year round earned a median $66,790 in 2023, a 3% change from the previous year, the report found. Women, meanwhile, saw wages grow by half that much, earning a median of $55,240, up 1.5% from 2022.
Overall, these women earned 83% of what men earned in 2023, down from 84% in 2022. It’s the first statistically significant annual decrease the Census Bureau has documented since 2003.
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