10 Metro Areas Where Young Women Earn More Than Young Men

While the gender wage gap in the U.S. persists, it is narrower among younger workers nationally, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data. Among full-time, year-round workers in 2019, women's median annual earnings were 82% those of men. However, women younger than 30 earned the same amount as or more than their male counterparts in 22 of 250 metro areas Pew analyzed. Overall, some 16% of all young women who work full time year-round live in the 22 metros where women are at or above wage parity with men. Pew's analysis identified 107 metros where young women earned between 90% and 99% of what young men earn. In 2019, 47% of young women working full time, year-round lived in these areas. In another 103 metros, home to 17% of young full-time female workers in 2019, women earned between 80% and 89% of what men earn. About 1% of the young women's workforce lived in 14 metros, where this cohort's earnings were between 70% and 79% those of men in 2019. See the gallery for the 10 metro areas were young women who work full time year-round are above wage parity with young men.