Median weekly earnings were $1,204 in 2025

Median weekly earnings of the nation's 121.5 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,204 in 2025. Women had median weekly earnings of $1,089, or 82.1 percent of the $1,326 earned by men.

Women ages 16 to 24 earned a median wage of $725 per week, or 90.1 percent of the $805 weekly wage for men of the same age.  For workers 25 years of age and over, women earned $1,143—81.9 percent of men’s median weekly wage of $1,395.

These data are from the Current Population Survey in current dollars and are not seasonally adjusted. For more information, see "Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers: 2025." 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.