Pay Gap Lookup: Median Earnings by Profession and State
National median weekly earnings for women and men in 29 occupations (BLS Current Population Survey, 2025 annual averages), plus each state's measured earnings gap for full-time, year-round workers (Census American Community Survey, 2024 1-year).
Pick a profession and a state. You'll see the measured national medians for women and men in that job, the measured overall gap in your state, and a clearly labeled modeled estimate of what the job's gap might look like in your state. Every figure lists its source and year; see the methodology below.
Methodology & limitations
Profession figures: median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by detailed occupation and sex, BLS Current Population Survey 2025 annual averages (Table 39), annualized by ×52. BLS notes that 2025 annual estimates are 11-month averages that exclude October 2025, when data were not collected because of the federal government shutdown. Occupations are included only where BLS publishes a median for both women and men (BLS does not publish medians where the base is under 50,000 workers), so some jobs are not listed. State figures: median earnings in the past 12 months of men and women who worked full-time, year-round, Census American Community Survey 2024 1-year estimates, table B20017 (2024 inflation-adjusted dollars). These are measured state-level figures for all occupations combined, and they carry margins of error, so states with similar ratios may not differ meaningfully. Modeled estimate: the profession-in-state figure is not measured. It applies the state's ACS women-to-men ratio relative to the national ACS ratio as a proportional adjustment to the national BLS median for women in that profession. It assumes the profession's gap in a state moves with the state's overall gap, which may not hold. Career totals are simple arithmetic (annual median gap × 40 years, no wage growth or inflation) and are not a forecast. Individual earnings vary.