In 2017, Maryland women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $959, or 84.8 percent of the $1,131 median usual weekly earnings for their male counterparts, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Sheila Watkins noted that the women’s-to-men’s earnings ratio in Maryland decreased 2.5 percentage points from the previous year. Nationwide, women earned $770 per week, or 81.8 percent of the $941 median for men. (See table 1. Earnings in this release do not control for many factors that can be significant in explaining earnings differences.)