The wage gap percentage between women and men was 16.2% at the end of 2023, according to a report from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The 16.2% wage gap is the narrowest margin reported since BLS began conducting the survey in 1979, when the gap was 37.7%.
Although the wage gap has been narrowing steadily, progress has been slow, especially during the past ten years. For example, women earned 83.8% of men’s earnings in 2023, only slightly higher than the 82.0% gap in 2013.
The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has prepared a graph based on the BLS data showing the wage gap percentage since BLS began its survey in 1979.
CWC Members of can read more here.