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Colorado Women Earn 78 Percent Of Men's Average

DENVER (Denver Business Journal) - Colorado women earned about 78 cents for every dollar Colorado men earned in 2010, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Wednesday.

The state's women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median weekly earnings of $719, or 77.7 percent, of the $925 median weekly earnings for their male counterparts, the labor bureau reported.

Read more on the website of CBS4 partner the Denver Business Journal.

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