Weekly Viz 2022-03-14
US Median Earnings by Occupation & Sex
This month is the Women’s History Month, and the last Tuesday (3/8) was the International Women’s day. With the spirit of supporting gender equality, this week I am looking at the US median earnings data by occupation and sex from US Census.
My Visualization
I came across this post by cencus.gov celebrating 2020 International Women’s day. This is a great resource, and I decided to look at the same two metrics as its first chart – % women in each occupation and median earnings comparison between men and women. Though the occupation definition seems slightly different as I used the data from Table P-46A, while the occupation in the post seems more granular.
Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.
Insights
- Some occupations, for example healthcare support, have way more women (86%) than man, while some occupations like Installation, maintenance, and repair (4%) are mainly men;
- Though we see this variance of women % across the occupations, there is always an earning gap between women and man (overall 35.8k vs. 49.3k);
- And there seem to be some correlation between overall earning level and the earning gap – for occupations that generally earn more, the earning gap between women and men are larger than those lower-pay occupations.
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