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❇❛s✐❝ ❋❛❝ts ❙✉♣♣❧② ♦❢ ❙❦✐❧❧s ✭Pr❡✲❈♦❧❧❡❣❡✮ ❙✉♣♣❧② ♦❢ ❙❦✐❧❧s ✭❈♦❧❧❡❣❡✮ ❉❡♠❛♥❞ ❢♦r ❙❦✐❧❧s
❇❛s✐❝ ❋❛❝ts ❙✉♣♣❧② ♦❢ ❙❦✐❧❧s ✭Pr❡✲❈♦❧❧❡❣❡✮ ❙✉♣♣❧② ♦❢ ❙❦✐❧❧s ✭❈♦❧❧❡❣❡✮ ❉❡♠❛♥❞ ❢♦r ❙❦✐❧❧s
Median Earnings Gap b/w College & High School Roughly Doubles between 1979 and 2012
College/high school median annual earnings gap, 1979–2012
In constant 2012 dollars
10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 70,000 dollars 1979 1982 1985 1988 1991 1994 1997 2000 2003 2006 2009 2012
Household gap $30,298 to $58,249 Male gap $17,411 to $34,969 Female gap $12,887 to $23,280 Autor, 2014