A report out Tuesday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows women in Oklahoma earned 83 percent of their male counterparts during 2012.
The study looked at the median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers. That figure is slightly above the nationwide average of women earning 80.9 percent compared to men.
The BLS says the ratio of women's-to-men's earnings fluctuated around 75 percent from 2004 to 2008, until reaching a high of 87.9 percent in 2009.
That high resulted from both an increase in women's median weekly earnings, while men's weekly pay decline. The ratio then fell and rose again, with 2012 marking the second-highest earnings ratio for Oklahoma on record.
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