Back to previous page  Women’s pay increases faster than
men’s...until they hit age 30  By ,  The gender pay gap starts
early: 22-year-old women earn, on average, $8,900 less than
their male counterparts for jobs that typically require a
bachelor’s degree, according to Payscale, a salary-data
collection service. Early on in their careers, however, women
have a little bit of headway in playing catchup: The percentage
growth in their pay is slightly higher than men’s pay growth
throughout their twenties. By age 30, they still earn $14,300
less than men, but their pay raises up until that point had been
higher than men’s, in percentage terms. Michael Yarish/AMC Guess
who has to take him home?  That trend, however, abruptly stops
after the age of 30, when college-educated women typically start
having children. Their wage growth then slows significantly for
the rest of their working years, compared with men’s, and then
almost levels off completely at age 39, as Payscale charts:
(h/t Catherine Rampell)  © The Was