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America’s best and worst paid jobs for women revealed

The best and worst paid jobs for women
Wholesale and retail buyers: 0.2% more
Postal service clerks: 1.7% more
Receptionists and information clerks: 2.2% more
Stock clerks and order fillers: 2.2% more
Editors: 3.1% more
Paralegals and legal assistants: 3.9% more
Office clerk, general: 4.6% more
Billing and posting clerks: 9.2% more
Advertising sales agents: 10.8% more
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians: 11.2% more
Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks: 12.5% more
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food: 15.9% more
And the jobs where women earn much less than men...Industrial engineers: 25% less
Financial analysts: 25.1% less
First-line supervisors of retail sales workers: 26.2% less
Marketing and sales managers: 26.5% less
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers: 26.6% less
Personal financial advisors: 26.7% less
Insurance underwriters: 27% less
Police and sheriff's patrol officers: 27.9% less
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs: 28.3% less
Retail salespersons: 28.9% less
First-line supervisors of production and operating workers: 29% less
Financial managers: 29.3% less
Real estate brokers and sales agents: 30.1% less
Chief executives: 30.2% less
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers: 32.6% less
Physicians and surgeons: 33.3% less
Credit counselors and loan officers: 34.3% less
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents: 36.1% less
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The best and worst paid jobs for women

The Equal Pay Act was signed into law by President John F Kennedy way back in 1963, but over 50 years later equal pay for men and women is still not standard across the board. Today women only earn 81.1 cents of every dollar that men in the same roles take home, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. But there are exceptions, and in certain industries female workers actually take home more money than men. We reveal the best and worst paid jobs for women in America in 2018. 

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Daniel Coughlin

15 April 2019

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