As of Jan. 1, a new Minnesota law was put into effect in order to narrow the racial and gender pay gap. It encourages employers to rely on skills or qualifications to set pay for the job applicant and ...

“If you want to hire the best of the best, you may pay more for someone who is, say, in engineering than you may for someone coming in for a graphic design ... is the highest in Minnesota. Only ...

The gender wage gap varies by age and metropolitan area ... Both are provided by the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) from the University of Minnesota. IPUMS assigns uniform codes, to ...

Though still enormous, the gap has shrunk over the past five years. By David Leonhardt In the early 2000s, the wage gap between Black and white workers in the U.S. was as large as it had been in 1950.

The gender pay gap has barely narrowed in two decades, a recent Pew Research Center analysis found. In 2002, women earned 80% of what men earned and in 2022, they earned 82% of what men earned.