Pay Equity Facts

  • Pay Equity Day falls on Tuesday April 14, 2015. This date symbolizes the point in the current year to which a woman must work to achieve pay equity for the previous year.  http://www.aauw.org
  • In 2013, for every dollar earned on average for the same or comparable job worked by a white, non-Hispanic man:
  • That 78 cents means $906 a month, $5,438 over six months, $10, 876 a year and over the course of an entire career $435,049 lost to the pay gap. equalpaybackproject.com
  • Under the Equal Pay Act, Plaintiffs are not entitled to compensatory and punitive damages if their employer has violated the law. http://www.pay-equity.org/info.html
  • The Paycheck Fairness Act aims to cover the holes left by the Equal Pay Act; its goal is to strengthen the effectiveness of the Equal Pay Act, but has yet to be passed in the Senate.
    http://www.nwlc.org (Tab: Our Issues; Employment; Equal Pay and the Wage Gap)
  • If equal pay for women were introduced today, it would result in a national yearly gain of $319 billion for women and their families (in 2008 dollars). http://www.now.org/issues/economic/factsheet.html
  • If the pace of change in the annual earnings ratio continues at the same rate it has since 1960, it will take almost 50 years—or until 2058 for women to reach parity. http://www.iwpr.org/initiatives/pay-equity-and-discrimination
  • According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2014 (fourth quarter) women who worked full time had median earnings of 715 dollars per week, while men had median earnings of $870 per week. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wekyeng.pdf
  • One year after graduating from college, women are paid on average only 82 percent of their male counterparts’ wages (U.S. Dept. of Education). Four years after college, Bachelor’s degree male graduates’ median earnings in 2012 were $57,800 to female graduates’ earnings of only $47,400. educationbythenumbers.org/content/category/gender/
    Article “Wage Gap Among Young College Graduates Remains High”

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