Table 10
Average annual earnings of women and men, by occupation, 2008
Type of occupation | Full-year, full-time workers | All workers | ||||
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Women | Men | Earnings ratio |
Women | Men | Earnings ratio |
|
dollars | percentage | dollars | percentage | |||
Management | 62,900 | 86,300 | 72.9 | 55,600 | 83,800 | 66.4 |
Administrative | 43,900 | 61,400 | 71.5 | 36,800 | 56,800 | 64.8 |
Professionals | ||||||
Business and finance | 62,600 | 106,700E | 58.6 | 54,500 | 95,700 | 57.0 |
Natural sciences | 64,600 | 77,400 | 83.5 | 55,500 | 67,300 | 82.4 |
Social sciences/government/religion | 43,100 | 86,600 | 49.8 | 34,300 | 73,400 | 46.7 |
Teachings | 60,200 | 72,600 | 83.0 | 48,200 | 55,700 | 86.6 |
Medicine/health1 | 73,200 | 128,900 | 56.8 | 60,600 | 118,300 | 51.2 |
Artistic/recreational | 42,400 | 49,700 | 85.4 | 29,800 | 35,300 | 84.3 |
Clerical2 | 40,000 | 49,100 | 81.5 | 31,200 | 40,100 | 77.8 |
Sales/service | 28,400 | 49,500 | 57.3 | 17,800 | 32,900 | 54.1 |
Trades/transportation | 36,800 | 49,800 | 73.9 | 25,800 | 42,300 | 61.0 |
Primary | 23,400 | 47,800 | 49.0 | 17,400 | 38,300 | 45.5 |
Manufacturing | 28,100 | 50,500 | 55.7 | 23,700 | 43,200 | 54.8 |
Total | 44,700 | 62,600 | 71.3 | 30,700 | 47,400 | 64.6 |
1. Includes nurses and nurse supervisors. 2. Technical, assisting and related occupations in health. Note: Average annual earnings excludes Canadians with no earnings. Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. |
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