A full-time working woman in the NYC metro area makes 85 cents for every dollar a man makes, according to 2012 American Community Survey data crunched by the National Partnership for Women and Families.
$55,071The average yearly pay
for a man here
$46,642The average yearly payfor a woman
$8,429yearly gap
The gap is a particular problem in NYC, given that 1,057,149 households are headed by women and 26% of all female-headed households in the area fall below the poverty level.
