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Median weekly earnings were $1,076 for women, $1,333 for men, in third quarter 2025

December 10, 2025

Median weekly earnings of the nation's 122.6 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,214 in the third quarter of 2025. Women had median weekly earnings of $1,076, or 80.7 percent of the $1,333 median for men.
 Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by occupation and sex, current dollars, third quarter 2025, not seasonally adjusted
Occupational group All workers Men Women

All workers

 1,214 1,333 1,076

Management, professional, and related occupations

 1,662 1,912 1,466

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations

 1,118 1,131 859

Sales and office occupations

 1008 1218 934

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations

 929 990 772

Service occupations

 795 897 747

Note: Data are not seasonally adjusted.

Among the major occupational groups, people employed full time in management, professional, and related occupations had the highest median weekly earnings—$1,912 for men and $1,466 for women. People employed in service occupations earned the least—$897 for men and $747 for women.

These data are from the Current Population Survey and are not seasonally adjusted. For more information, see "Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers: Third Quarter 2025" and more charts of usual weekly earnings data. Full-time workers usually work 35 hours or more per week at their sole or main job. The median is the midpoint in the earnings distribution; half of workers earn more than the median and half earn less.

SUGGESTED CITATION

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Median weekly earnings were $1,076 for women, $1,333 for men, in third quarter 2025 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2025/median-weekly-earnings-were-1076-for-women-1333-for-men-in-third-quarter-2025.htm (visited December 12, 2025).