Wives earnings make gains relative to husbands
Between 2000 and 2015, the share of married couples where the wife earned at least $30,000 a year more than the husband increased from 6 to 9 percent, according to statistics released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Married couples where the husband earned at least $30,000 more than the wife decreased from 38 to 35 percent. Conversely, husbands and wives whose earnings were within $4,999 of each other grew slightly from 24 percent in 2000 to 25 percent in 2015.
The statistics released come from the Census Bureau’s annual Families and Living Arrangements table package from the 2015 Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement, which has collected statistics on families and living arrangements for more than 60 years. The data measures income earned in 1999 and 2014, and income is in 2014 dollars.
The comparisons provide an overview of all married couples and do not account for employment status.
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