Occupations With the Largest and Smallest Pay Gap     

The current gender wage gap in America, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), sits at slightly less than 82%. That means the average working woman earns 82% of what the average working man earns, which hurts not only women’s ability to earn but also their ability to save. That number is up 20 percentage points since 1979, though still far from ideal. According to data from the BLS, there was almost no progress in gender pay parity from 2005 to 2017. And when you look at occupation-specific data, the numbers can be even worse. SmartAsset digs into the occupation data to rank the occupations with the largest and smallest gender pay gap.

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