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

Measure: Women's pay vs men's, service 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: 73.8 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 84.1
RI 71.3
DE 79.9
CT 79.7
NJ 66.8
MD 72.2
MA 64.2
VT 92.7
NH 73.2

Lowest: 63.8 to 70.5
Group 2: 70.5 to 73.6
Group 3: 73.6 to 75.5
Group 4: 75.5 to 77.8
Highest: 77.8 to 92.7

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	Vermont	92.7
2	North Dakota	88.8
3	Arizona	88.1
4	District of Columbia	84.1
5	Tennessee	80.4
6	Delaware	79.9
7	Connecticut	79.7
8	Nevada	79
9	Florida	78.8
10	Minnesota	78
11	Nebraska	77.8
12	Georgia	77.7
13	Iowa	77.6
14	Colorado	77.3
15	Kansas	76.9
15	Michigan	76.9
15	Washington	76.9
18	New Mexico	76.6
18	Ohio	76.6
20	Wisconsin	75.8
21	Mississippi	75.5
21	North Carolina	75.5
23	California	75.4
24	Missouri	75.2
25	Hawaii	74.8
26	Idaho	74.4
26	South Carolina	74.4
28	Pennsylvania	74.3
29	Arkansas	73.8
30	Montana	73.7
31	Oregon	73.6
32	Louisiana	73.5
33	New Hampshire	73.2
34	West Virginia	72.9
35	Illinois	72.7
36	Indiana	72.6
37	Maryland	72.2
37	Oklahoma	72.2
39	New York	71.5
40	Rhode Island	71.3
41	Alabama	70.5
41	Kentucky	70.5
43	Texas	70.3
44	Virginia	68.9
45	Utah	67.2
45	Wyoming	67.2
47	New Jersey	66.8
48	South Dakota	64.5
49	Massachusetts	64.2
50	Maine	63.9
51	Alaska	63.8

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, service 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-service-jobs/

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