We hear about the wage gap between women + men, but what does that look like for Greenville? In honor of National Equal Pay Day, we’ve rounded up some stats that break down pay inequality + women who are leading the way on local, state, and national levels.
Local:
$0.61: The amount a woman in GVL makes for each $1 a man makes, according to data from the U.S. Economic Census in 2012 (data from the 2017 census won’t be released until 2019).
11.3%: The percentage of South Carolina women in the workforce who work in Greenville. 💁 From 2005 – 2015, Greenville saw the third largest growth of women employed full-time in the state.
👩💻 Sky Foster: Department manager for Corporate Communications at BMW Manufacturing Co.
State:
$0.81: The amount an S.C. woman makes for each $1 a man makes, about equal to the national average. That number is $0.68 for Asian women, $0.57 for black women, and $0.53 for Latina women.
$11,000: The median annual difference between men’s + women’s salaries in South Carolina.
$5.2 billion: The total annual economic impact that the state would experience if we increased female labor force participation to a level that would mitigate our growing workforce shortage.
👩💻 Marrilyn Hewson: Chairman, President + CEO of Lockheed Martin (with facilities in Charleston + Greenville)
National:
$0.78: According to the American Community Survey, an average American woman earns ~80 cents for every $1 that a man makes.
99: The number of days into 2018 that a woman must work to earn what the average man would’ve already made by the end of 2017. (That’s why Equal Pay Day is on April 10th this year – 99 days from the start of the year).
$2.0 trillion: the Congress Joint Economic Committee reports our national economy is $2 trillion bigger today than it would have been if women hadn’t increased their presence in the workforce over the past 30 years.
👩💻 Lynn Good: President, CEO, Vice Chair of the Board of Duke Energy
