Female workers in the Baton Rouge metro area age 16 and up earned 67% as much as their male counterparts in 2019, according to the Pew Research Center. That was up slightly from 65% in 2000, though only five other regions in the nation had a bigger gender pay gap. The national average was 82%.
Capital Region gender pay gap remains far wider than national average
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