Women’s pay falls farther behind men’s
By DANIEL LATHROP, P-I REPORTER
It's still a man's world in Seattle, and women just work here. For less money.
Last year in King County, men's median salaries increased from about $52,000 to about $55,000, while women's salaries remained constant at about $41,000, according to economic results released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.
In fact, the gender gap in pay grew in the county by about 4 cents from the previous year, according to a Seattle P-I analysis of the statistics in the 3 million-person national survey. That means women earned abpit 74 cents for every dollar a man earned, down from about 79 cents a year earlier.
One retired businesswoman said she was less surprised by the growing gap than at how close women's salaries were to men's.
"I'm surprised that the women's were that high," said Ann Adams, who retired three years ago from her own vocational rehabilitation company. She said women she knows are more likely than men to sacrifice pay for family considerations and work, like she did, in health care and other service jobs that pay less than work in other sectors.
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