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Gender pay gap narrows in Montana, but still wide

December 29, 2020/

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Montana women earn only 73.2 cents for every dollar that Montana men make, but it’s still an improvement over the 68.4 cents they were earning in 2013.

That’s according to the 2020 Final Report of the Montana Equal Pay for Equal Work Task Force, a group of economists, lawmakers, government officials, business leaders and others who’ve been raising awareness about the gender pay gap since Governor Steve Bullock convened them in 2013.

 

David Erickson


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