The Wage Gap By State for African-American Women
Families depend on women’s wages more than ever, but the typical woman working full time, year round is paid less than the typical full-time, year-round male worker in every state. For African-American women the wage gap is even larger than for women overall. The wage gap for African-American women working full time, year round also varies widely by state, as indicated in the map and table below. African-American women fared best in Vermont, where the typical African-American woman working full time, year round made 79.4 cents for every dollar her white, non-Hispanic male counterpart made. Montana and Idaho followed Vermont with the ratio of African-American women’s to white, non-Hispanic men’s earnings at 78.5 percent and 76.1 percent, respectively.
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