The table provides data on the annual salaries and weekly working hours for five professions in Country X in 2024, while the accompanying pie chart illustrates the gender distribution across these occupations.
Overall, the data indicates a wide disparity in both earnings and hours across the five professions, with Software Engineers earning the most and Teachers the least. Furthermore, the workforce across these occupations is heavily dominated by male employees.
Regarding earnings, the Software Engineer profession commanded the highest annual salary at $110,000, while simultaneously demanding one of the lowest weekly commitments at 38 hours. The next highest earners were Architects, whose salary stood at $75,000 for 45 working hours per week. Conversely, Teachers were positioned at the bottom , receiving only $48,000 annually, despite working 35 hours. Moreover,The two other professions, Nurse and Chef fell into the mid-range of salaries at $52000 and $60000 for working 40 and 50 hours respectively.
The pie chart reveals a significant gender imbalance when considering all five professions collectively. Males constituted a dominant 68% of the total workforce, which is more than double the proportion of female employees, who accounted for just 32%.