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We got our US data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and our UK data from the Office for National
Statistics.
The data we used is for full-time employees, we didn't include part-time employment or freelance work.
Caveat - these stats represent average salaries for industries as a whole. We found no data comparing the
salaries of men and women doing exactly the same job at the same place. Probably because only individual
employers have that info, and if they admitted to paying unfairly, they'd be admitting to breaking the law.
This dataset is twinned with a visualisation from the book, Knowledge is Beautiful by David McCandless (out Sep 2014).
Thanks
David McCandless
Sep 2016