The table illustrates the difference between male and female in their average weekly salary across 5 different fields of work in 2015. Overall, men earned more money than women in every occupation. In addition, people employed in professional fields reported the largest earnings.
Looking first at the professional sector, while men had the highest income at 2000$ compared to all figures in the chart, the sector witnessed the least earning disparity between genders, with women at 1900$. In contrast, The Service men workers’ earnings exceeded those of women workers by a margin of 50%, with 1400$ and 900$, respectively.
The average salary in Administrative/clerical workers was significantly lower, with the respective figures being only $1350 for men and $1000 for women. A comparable pattern was observed among service workers, where men’s earnings stood at $1,300, while women’s were $950 – a disparity of $350. Finally, manual laborers had the least income across all occupations. Particularly, while men earned $1100 per week, women even received a lower amount of $250, making it the least income ($850) across all figures.