DALLAS — North Texas is home to three of the 10 cities with the largest gender pay gaps in 2024, according to a new report.
Frisco has the largest gender pay gap in the U.S., according to a new report from ChamberofCommerce.org. Women earn 56% of the money men do in the Collin County city, and the pay disparity is $52,216, nearly five times the national average, according to the data.
Frisco also saw a year-over-year pay gap widening of $12,357, according to the Census Bureau, with management occupations in Frisco having the largest gender pay gap. From 2021 to 2022, the gender pay gap for management occupations in Frisco rose by $56,185.
“Not only do these management positions have the widest pay gap in Frisco, but they also saw the largest year-over-year pay gap increase,” the report says.
ChamberofCommerce.org, a product research company, examined earnings for full-time, year-round workers (not distinguished based on career) in the most populous 170 U.S. cities based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
Another Collin County city, McKinney, ranked fifth on the list of cities with the largest gender pay gaps with a pay disparity of $24,568, followed by Plano at number seven, with a pay disparity of $23,415.
Nationally, the pay gap between working men and women is about $11,069, with men earning $62,344 on average while women earn on average $51,275.
Texas’ statewide pay gap of $11,884 is on par with the national average.
Of the 170 cities examined in the report, women earned more than men in only four, including Garland and Brownsville in Texas.
The top three occupations with the largest gender pay gaps, according to the report, are legal occupations, with a pay gap of $69,985, health diagnosing and treating practitioners, and other technical occupations with a pay gap of $37,931, and management occupations with a pay gap of $23,078.
A decade ago, full-time, year-round working women in the U.S. earned about 80% of men’s earnings, according to the report. That’s improved by two percentage points in 2024.
Tuesday marked Equal Pay Day, a public awareness event coined by the National Committee on Pay Equity to illustrate the gap between men’s and women’s wages.
“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,” President Joe Biden said in a proclamation ahead of National Equal Pay Day. “Women working full-time and year-round are paid an average of 84 cents for every dollar paid to men. In more than 90 percent of occupations, women earn less than men – and these disparities are even greater for women of color and women with disabilities.”
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