Report: Women earn 87 cents on every dollar men are paid

A woman working full time in Florida is typically paid 87 cents for every dollar paid to a man — a yearly difference of $5,474, according to the annual “Equal Pay Day” report by the nonprofit National Partnership for Women & Families.

The 13-cent gap is the same as in 2017.

The median pay for Florida women who work full time, year-round is $36,112 a year, compared with $41,586 for Florida men, according to the report.

Yet Florida women have less of a gap in wages with men than in many states. Florida has the third-smallest, cents-on-thedollar gap in the nation, behind California and New York, which have gaps of 12 cents and 11 cents, respectively, according to the report.

Equal Pay Day marks how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.

“Equal Pay Day is a disturbing reminder that women overall have had to work more than three months into 2018 just to catch up with what men were paid in 2017,” said Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership, a nonpartisan group in Washington, D.C., of the day that was observed Tuesday.

If the gap were closed, the partnership points out that women could afford:

43 more weeks of food for the family.

Four more months of mortgage and utilities payments.

One year of tuition and fees for four-year universities. Five more months of rent. Nine more months of child care each year.

Nationally, women are paid 80 cents for every dollar paid to a man, a yearly pay difference of $10,086, according to the report. White non-Hispanic women are typically paid 79 cents, black women 63 cents and Latinas 54 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men, the partnership said.

On average, women employed full time in the United States lose a combined total of nearly $900 billion every year due to the wage gap.

“These lost wages mean women and their families have less money to support themselves, save and invest for the future, and spend on goods and services. Families, businesses and the economy suffer as a result,” the report says.

Findings for each state from the new wage gap analysis are available at NationalPartnership.org/Gap. The analysis uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

“These lost wages mean women and their families have less money to support themselves, save and invest for the future.”

From the “Equal Pay Day” report by nonprofit National Partnership for Women & Families