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Equal Pay Day has come around again, and it feels a little like Groundhog Day.
Despite the annual reminder about how far into the new year women have to work to earn as much as men made the previous year, the wage gap remains persistent.
Women working full time, year-round earn 84 cents for every dollar men make, inching up from 83.7 cents last year, according to the latest numbers from the Census Bureau.
But that amount falls to 78 cents when you include seasonal and part-time workers, who account for roughly a third of women in the U.S. workforce, according to the National Partnership for Women & Families. That results in a difference of $11,450 in earnings over the course of a year, based on median annual pay, the group found. For women of color, the pay gap is even bigger.
"Women's labor force participation is the highest it has been in decades, and the gender pay gap is the narrowest it has ever been on record. Yet, despite this progress, the fight for equal pay continues," stated President Biden in a proclamation released Monday by the White House ahead of Equal Pay Day.