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

Measure: Women's pay vs men's, management and professional 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: 72.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 88
RI 74.1
DE 74.8
CT 75.6
NJ 74
MD 76.8
MA 78.2
VT 77.8
NH 70.9

Lowest: 60 to 70.5
Group 2: 70.5 to 72.1
Group 3: 72.1 to 74.4
Group 4: 74.4 to 75.8
Highest: 75.8 to 88

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	88
2	Alaska	82.7
3	California	78.8
4	Massachusetts	78.2
4	New York	78.2
6	Vermont	77.8
7	Maryland	76.8
8	Wisconsin	76.2
9	Illinois	76
10	Iowa	75.9
11	Minnesota	75.8
11	Montana	75.8
13	Connecticut	75.6
13	Kentucky	75.6
15	New Mexico	75.2
16	Oregon	75
17	Delaware	74.8
18	Pennsylvania	74.7
18	South Dakota	74.7
20	West Virginia	74.5
21	Nevada	74.4
22	Rhode Island	74.1
23	New Jersey	74
24	Ohio	73.7
25	Indiana	73.3
26	Arkansas	73.1
26	Missouri	73.1
28	Florida	72.7
29	North Dakota	72.4
29	Wyoming	72.4
31	Georgia	72.1
31	Tennessee	72.1
33	Mississippi	71.9
34	Washington	71.8
35	Arizona	71.4
35	Colorado	71.4
37	Maine	71.1
38	Nebraska	70.9
38	New Hampshire	70.9
40	Idaho	70.8
41	Hawaii	70.5
42	Kansas	70.2
43	Louisiana	70.1
44	Virginia	69.8
45	Texas	69.6
46	South Carolina	69.4
47	Michigan	69.2
48	Oklahoma	68.8
49	North Carolina	67.7
50	Alabama	65.8
51	Utah	60

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, management and professional 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-management-and-professional-jobs/

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