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Food preparation workers
Unfortunately, equal pay is more common in low-wage jobs than it is in jobs where people earn more.
Such is the case with food preparation workers, a field that often requires no more than a high school degree.
In this case, men and women's earnings are the same because they both receive minimum wage.
Full-time women earned a median salary of just $17,000 in 2011, 91 cents to the dollar of a man.
Source: American Community Survey 2011. We included occupations with at least 20,000 full-time workers, where women make a median annual salary that's equal to at least 90% of a man's full-time salary. We only included fields where women don't outnumber men, and men don't outnumber women, by more than 20%.
- Last updated February 11 2013 08:34 AM ET
