--- title: The Only 4 Places in the U.S. Where Women Make More Money Than Men description: The places where women actually make more than men for comparable work are all clustered in the Northeast. authors: - name: Alicia Adamczyk url: https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 201 covers: - Personal Finance - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/aliciaadamczyk former_staff: true published: '2016-12-06T14:51:05.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T04:45:03.000Z' section: Personal Finance tags: - gender wage gap word_count: 265 canonical: https://money.com/states-women-make-more-men-northeast/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Businesswoman walking down steps outdoors](https://img.money.com/2016/12/160512_ca_statesforpay.jpg) The gender wage gap is far from bridged. But there are a handful of places in the U.S. where women now tend to out-earn men in similar positions, a new study finds. The states where women actually make more than men for comparable work are clustered in the Northeast, according to PayScale's 2016 [Gender Pay Gap report,](http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/gender-pay-gap) which is drawn from around 1.8 million employee surveys completed between October 2014 and October 2016. In Connecticut, where women see the greatest relative advantage, they make 1.6% more than men with the same education, work experience, company size, skills, and other factors. Here's how the top spots for women rank: 1. Connecticut - 1.6% 2. Vermont - 0.6% 3. Washington D.C. - 0.5% 4. Rhode Island - 0.2% That 1.6% advantage looks particularly puny when you look at places where men make more than women -- and where, it turns out, the gender-based advantage is significantly greater. In fact, in the five states with the widest overall "controlled" gender wage gap, men came out ahead -- and there were actually increases in the gap compared with last year's report. Those states are: 1. Louisiana - 7.4% (up from 6% in 2015) 2. Alabama - 7.1% (vs. 5.7%) 3. West Virginia - 6.5% (vs. 5.4%) 4. Oklahoma - 5.1% (vs. 4.6%) 5. Iowa - 4.8% (vs. 4.7%) The pay gap between the sexes is much higher when not accounting for job title, company size, and other factors. In such an "uncontrolled" analysis, men earn 27.1% more than women, on average -- in part because, PayScale's found, women are [less likely](https://money.com/high-earners-motherhood-penalty/) than men to be in management roles. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/states-women-make-more-men-northeast/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Personal Finance", "item": "https://money.com/personal-finance/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Income", "item": "https://money.com/income/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "The Only 4 Places in the U.S. Where Women Make More Money Than Men" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/states-women-make-more-men-northeast/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/states-women-make-more-men-northeast/", "name": "The Only 4 Places in the U.S. Where Women Make More Money Than Men", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-12-06T14:51:05.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/states-women-make-more-men-northeast/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/states-women-make-more-men-northeast/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T04:45:03.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "The Only 4 Places in the U.S. Where Women Make More Money Than Men", "articleSection": "Personal Finance", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/12/160512_ca_statesforpay.jpg", "width": 2100, "height": 1400, "caption": "160512_CA_STATESFORPAY" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alicia Adamczyk", "url": "https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/#author", "image": "https://img.money.com/2016/01/alicia-headshot-2.jpg?quality=85&w=640&h=640&crop=1", "email": "alicia.adamczyk@moneymail.com", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/aliciaadamczyk" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2016-12-06T14:51:05.000Z", "description": "The places where women actually make more than men for comparable work are all clustered in the Northeast.", "abstract": "The places where women actually make more than men for comparable work are all clustered in the Northeast.", "@id": "https://money.com/states-women-make-more-men-northeast/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-17T04:45:03.000Z", "wordCount": 265, "keywords": [ "gender wage gap" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Personal finance", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_finance" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Income", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income" ] } ] } ] } ```