Pay gaps in professional occupations
This chart compares pay dispersion within selected professional occupations in the latest available year. It uses Census ACS microdata and reports the ratio between high- and low-paid full-time, year-round workers within each occupation; it does not compare average pay levels across professions.
What does it show?
Workers with the same professional title can occupy very different parts of the income distribution.
Methodology
Latest common-year snapshot from the same weighted ACS PUMS cache as the wage-spread time series. Ratio is p90 annual wage income divided by p10 for full-time, year-round workers. Consulting uses management analysts; academia uses postsecondary teachers. Wage income excludes partnership/self-employment income and unvested equity; top-coding compresses the upper tail, so the ratios are conservative. See wagespread for coding-era caveats.