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Office Of Economic Empowerment

Official Website administered by the State Treasurer and Receiver General of Massachusetts

Deborah B. Goldberg

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FACT

Did you know that the average woman working full time in the United States will lose approximately $407,760 over a 40-year career because of the wage gap? Source

Wage Gap Calculator

Want to look up the gender wage gap in your occupation? Fill out the calculator below:

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THE WAGE GAP

A woman working in the Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations makes 80 cents to a man’s $1.

$294
per week
$15,000
per year
$657,000
in 43 years
That's like...
Coffee
347,822
cups of coffee
Childcare
8,249
days of childcare
Rent
356
months of rent
Student Loan
1,673
months of student loan payment
Tickets
11,539
tickets to a Boston baseball game
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The results displayed by this calculator assume the following values:

  1. Cost of a medium cup of brewed coffee in Massachusetts ($1.89)
  2. Average daily cost of center-based childcare for an infant in Massachusetts ($79.69)
  3. Median monthly rental cost of a 2-bedroom apartment in Massachusetts ($1847.00)
  4. Average monthly student loan payment in the United States ($393.00)
  5. Average cost of a ticket to see a professional baseball game in Boston ($56.97)

Data on earnings is national. Median earnings in Massachusetts tend to be higher than national median earnings. For more information on the median earnings in Massachusetts see:
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_ma.htm#00-0000.

Annual earnings are calculated by multiplying weekly earnings by 52. Weekly earnings are based on unpublished data by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Table A-2. “Usual weekly earnings of employed full-time wage and salary workers by intermediate occupation, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity and Non-Hispanic ethnicity, Annual Average 2019.”