The Gender Pay Gap Visualized

Women in the U.S. had to work all the way through 2024 and into March of 2025 to earn the equivalent of the 2024 wages of U.S. men. When looking only at full-time, year-round work, this means that on average, American working women are paid 83 cents for every dollar that working men make.

Women's income in the U.S. overall shrunk recently, pushing the U.S. equal pay day back from March 12 to March 25. But the day is only the first in a row of equal pay days for different races and ethnicities published by AAUW, also including Asian, Pacific Islander & Native Hawaiian women's equal pay day on April 7, 2025, Black Women's equal pay day on July 10, Latina's equal pay day on October 8 and Native American Women's equal pay day on November 18 of 2025. Black women working full-time, year-round earn 66 cents for every dollar white, non-Hispanic men make, while that number is 58 cents for Native American women as well as Latina women in the United States. As Native American women work part-time or seasonally more often, their equal pay day comes even later than that of Latinas, however. The same is true for Asian, Pacific Islander & Native Hawaiian women who earn 97 cents for every dollar men make in full-time, year round work (above the U.S. average).

The money females in the U.S. earn compared to men had been increasing over time, especially for Asian women. However, most recently, the rate stagnated at just a one or two cent increase every year, before taking a step back of one cent with the most recent data.