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Women's pay vs men's, sales and office jobs: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Women's pay vs men's, sales and office jobs (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Women's pay versus men's by occupation group by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 78.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 77.8
RI 88.4
DE 73.6
CT 85.5
NJ 74.7
MD 84.9
MA 81.2
VT 84.8
NH 86.6

Lowest: 64.3 to 74.3
Group 2: 74.3 to 77
Group 3: 77 to 80.1
Group 4: 80.1 to 83.4
Highest: 83.4 to 89.6

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: Covers all workers with earnings, full-time or part-time; differences in hours worked account for part of the gap.


1	South Dakota	89.6
2	Nevada	88.6
3	Rhode Island	88.4
4	New Hampshire	86.6
5	New Mexico	85.9
6	Connecticut	85.5
7	Maryland	84.9
7	Montana	84.9
9	Vermont	84.8
10	New York	83.8
11	Oregon	83.4
12	Arizona	83.1
13	Colorado	82.9
13	Hawaii	82.9
15	Alaska	82.8
16	California	82.1
16	Wyoming	82.1
18	Massachusetts	81.2
19	Washington	80.8
20	Oklahoma	80.3
21	West Virginia	80.1
22	Minnesota	78.8
23	Virginia	78.7
24	Florida	78.6
25	Missouri	78.2
26	Kentucky	78
27	District of Columbia	77.8
28	Wisconsin	77.7
29	Pennsylvania	77.6
30	Kansas	77.3
31	Texas	77
32	North Dakota	76.1
33	North Carolina	75.8
34	Indiana	75.3
34	Maine	75.3
36	Arkansas	75
37	Illinois	74.9
38	New Jersey	74.7
39	Tennessee	74.6
40	Georgia	74.3
40	Ohio	74.3
42	Michigan	74
43	Delaware	73.6
44	Utah	73.2
45	South Carolina	72.9
46	Iowa	72.5
47	Nebraska	72.4
48	Mississippi	70.9
49	Louisiana	67.6
50	Alabama	67.2
51	Idaho	64.3

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S2411: Occupation by Sex and Median Earnings in the Past 12 Months (in 2025 Inflation-Adjusted Dollars) for the Civilian Employed Population 16 Years and Over. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by women's pay vs men's, sales and office jobs (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S2411; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-womens-pay-vs-mens-sales-and-office-jobs/

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