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Fact of the week: How many American wives earn more than their husbands?

Women are gaining ground in the earnings race with 29.3% bringing home more bacon.

By Rosalie L. Donlon | Updated on November 20, 2015

According to a report issued by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in June 2015, the percentage of women who earn more than their husbands is steadily increasing. BLS has been tracking married couples in which both the husband and wife work since 1987, and women have made slow but steady progress.

In 1987, the first year that BLS started tracking earnings in this way, 17.8% of married women out-earned their husbands. In 2013, the latest year for which BLS has data, 29.3% of married women made more than their husbands, as shown in the following chart.

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