| Though women made up 57 percent of the nearly 119,000 students who graduated from West Virginia public colleges over the past decade, a report just released suggests men who graduated in that time span and are working in the Mountain State are making significantly more money.
According to the "From Higher Education to Work in West Virginia" report, about 41 percent of the male graduates of the Mountain State's two-year and four-year colleges from the 2002-03 academic year to 2011-12 were working in West Virginia in calendar year 2013, making an average annual income of $50,400.
A greater percentage of the women graduates were working in West Virginia â 52 percent â but they were only making about $38,800 in the Mountain State.
That means men were making $11,600, or 30 percent, more in 2013, the latest year the report analyzed.
The study â produced by West Virginia University's Bureau of Business and Economic Research with about $30,000 in funding from the state Higher Education Policy Commission â also notes that "the income premium for men increases as time since graduation increases." The average income gap in 2013 was $22,900 between men and women who graduated in 2002-03.
Further, overall, WV women lead the nation with unequal pay.
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