Pay Gap U.S. Cities Ranked by Real Gender Wage Gap

Pay Gap U.S. Cities Ranked by Real Gender Wage Gap Women seeking fair pay might consider a move to Baltimore. Among the 20 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, a new PayScale report shows, Baltimore has the narrowest wage gap between men and women when controlled for workers with the same job, skills, and education. Working women in the Baltimore-Towson metro area are paid 0.6% less than equally qualified men, the survey of 1.4 million full-time workers found. That’s in contrast with a difference of 4.3% in St. Louis, where the pay gap is largest. (The controlled gap for women is 2.7% nationally.) While the study found that Baltimore had the fairest wages overallâ€"and that its single, childless women actually earn 2.5% more than their male peersâ€"the same could not be same for the city’s married female workers with children. Mirroring a national trend, Baltimore women in that category earn 5.6% less than equally qualified male residents. Married, With Children For married women with children, the survey found the worst pay gap in Detroit, where working mothers earn 7.0% less than male peers. The fairest wages for women with families were in Boston, which had a pay gap of 1.9%. Tampa and Los Angeles were second best, with gaps of 2.5% for women with husbands and kids. Read Next: Kids Killing Your Career? Only If You’re A Woman Interestingly, single women with or without childrenâ€"and married women without kidsâ€"all out-earned male peers in Tampa. In two Southern California cities, women in certain categories out-earned men by a significant margin. In Riverside, married women without kids earn 3.7% more than equally qualified men, and single mothers in San Diego get paid nearly 5% more than male peers. As for the uncontrolled pay gapâ€" a simple comparison of male and female median wages, regardless of job or qualificationsâ€"the survey found the “fairest” city to be Miami, where median pay is $46,100 for women and $57,700 for men. That’s a pay gap of about 20%. The most unequal city? That again would be Detroit, where median salary is $65,200 for men and only $43,500 for women, for a difference of 33%. Read More: Best and Worst States for the Gender Pay Gap This Is When the Gender Wage Gap Widens the Most Video Player is loading.Play VideoPlayMuteCurrent Time  0:00/Duration  0:00Loaded: 0%Stream Type  LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time  -0:00  SharePlayback Rate1xChaptersChaptersDescriptionsdescriptions off, selectedCaptionscaptions settings, opens captions settings dialogcaptions off, selectedAudio TrackFullscreenThis is a modal window. This video is either unavailable or not supported in this browser Error Code: MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED Technical details : No compatible source was found for this media. Session ID: 2019-12-30:2422689b306d1c825bcb7f42 Player Element ID: jumpstart_video_1 OK Close Modal DialogBeginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.TextColorWhiteBlackRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentBackgroundColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentTransparentWindowColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyTransparentSemi-TransparentOpaqueFont Size50%75%100%125%150%175%200%300%400%Text Edge StyleNoneRaisedDepressedUniformDropshadowFont FamilyProportional Sans-SerifMonospace Sans-SerifProportional SerifMonospace SerifCasualScriptSmall CapsReset restore all settings to the default valuesDoneClose Modal DialogEnd of dialog window.PlayMuteCurrent Time  0:00/Duration  0:00Loaded: 0%Stream Type  LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time  -0:00  Playback Rate1xFullscreenClose Modal DialogThis is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.Close Modal DialogThis is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.