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Women's Earnings in the Ocean State
1998-2005
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Rhode Island women working full-time earned a median weekly wage of $597 in 2005.  This was 77.9 percent of what full-time working males earned that year - the 4th highest earnings ratio in New England and the 31st highest in the country.  However, it represented a significant decline from the state’s 2004 ranking, when Rhode Island reported the 13th highest female-to-male earnings ratio in the U.S.  In fact, 2005 marked an end to three consecutive years of improvement in this wage differential, slipping from a peak of 81.1 percent one year earlier. 

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