Figure C
The gender wage gap is still widest among top earners: Women's hourly wages as a share of men's at various wage percentiles, 1979 and 2015
| 2015 | 1979 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 92.0% | 8.0 | 86.9% | 12.1 |
| 50th percentile | 82.7% | 17.3 | 62.4% | 37.6 |
| 95th percentile | 73.8% | 26.2 | 63.0% | 37.0 |
Notes: The xth-percentile wage is the wage at which x% of wage earners earn less and (100-x)% earn more.
Source: EPI analysis of Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation group microdata
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