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No more gender pay gap? Young women earn more than men in Sacramento. Here’s why
The prominence of the health care industry in the Sacramento, California region is one reason why young women there make more on average than young men. - Dreamstime/Dreamstime/TNS

No more gender pay gap? Young women earn more than men in Sacramento. Here’s why

The Sacramento, California region is one of the few places in the country where women under 30 earn more money than men, bucking the gender wage gap trend that remains pervasive across the United States. Nationwide, women still earn less than men on average, according to a recent report from Pew Research. Among full-time, year-round workers in 2019, women’s median annual earnings were 82% those of men. And in California, full-time female workers earned 87.6% of what full-time male workers earned in 2020. But in Sacramento metro area, the median salary for young women is actually about 101% of ...

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