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Women's pay as a percentage of men's: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Women's pay as a percentage of men's (%). 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: 74.9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 93.8
RI 81.9
DE 82.9
CT 76.9
NJ 74.7
MD 79.2
MA 75.4
VT 86.6
NH 72.1

Lowest: 63.2 to 73
Group 2: 73 to 74.9
Group 3: 74.9 to 76.7
Group 4: 76.7 to 80
Highest: 80 to 93.8

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	District of Columbia	93.8
2	Vermont	86.6
3	Delaware	82.9
4	Nevada	82.8
5	New York	82
6	Rhode Island	81.9
7	Florida	80.6
8	California	80.4
9	Hawaii	80.3
10	Alaska	80.2
11	Arizona	80
12	Maryland	79.2
13	Oregon	78.4
14	Kentucky	77.8
15	South Carolina	77.7
16	Colorado	77.4
17	New Mexico	77.1
18	Minnesota	77
19	Connecticut	76.9
20	Missouri	76.8
21	Georgia	76.7
22	Virginia	76.4
23	Illinois	75.4
23	Massachusetts	75.4
23	North Carolina	75.4
26	Arkansas	75.3
26	South Dakota	75.3
26	Tennessee	75.3
29	Oklahoma	75.2
30	Mississippi	75.1
31	Maine	74.9
32	New Jersey	74.7
33	Wisconsin	74.5
34	Pennsylvania	74.3
35	Iowa	74.2
36	Nebraska	74.1
37	West Virginia	73.9
38	Texas	73.6
39	Kansas	73.3
40	Ohio	73.1
41	Indiana	73
42	New Hampshire	72.1
43	North Dakota	71.9
44	Washington	71.7
45	Alabama	71.6
46	Montana	71.5
47	Michigan	71.4
48	Idaho	68.6
49	Louisiana	67.9
50	Utah	63.2
50	Wyoming	63.2

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 as a percentage of men's (%) (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-as-a-percentage-of-mens/

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