A new study suggests South Carolina’s Gender Wage Gap Costs the State’s Women More Than $5.5 billion a year.
The survey was put together by the National Partnership for Women and Families.
It found that on average, South Carolina women employed full-time are paid just 80 cents for every dollar paid to men. That means women are getting paid $8,200 a year less to do the same job.
For every dollar paid to white men in South Carolina, African-American women who work full time, year-round are paid 57 cents.
South Carolina is not the only state with a wage gap. The study found Oklahoma, Montana and Michigan have the worst disparity.
The Paycheck Fairness Act in Congress would close loopholes in the Equal Pay Act, break patterns of pay discrimination, and establish stronger workplace protections for women.