The Sacramento, California region is one of the few places in the country where women under 30 earn more money than men, bucking the gender wage gap trend that remains pervasive across the United States.
Nationwide, women still earn less than men on average, according to a recent report from Pew Research. Among full-time, year-round workers in 2019, women’s median annual earnings were 82% those of men. And in California, full-time female workers earned 87.6% of what full-time male workers earned in 2020.
But in Sacramento metro area, the median salary for young women is actually about 101% of the median salary for young men, according to Pew’s analysis of U.S. Census Bureau 2019 data.
