The median weekly pay of full-time workers followed a similar pattern.
Yes, but the median pay of those with four-year degrees is declining even faster.
For women, the median pay was $16,909 last year, $15,922 in 1979 and $16,201 in 1973.
The median gross pay for blacks rose $13 a week to $306.
In March 2011 the difference between the median pay of men and women was:
The median pay of a university lecturer in 2011 was £45,364.
The increase in median pay for full-time lecturers between 2009-10 and 2010-11 was 3.7%.
Even without an inflation adjustment, the median pay fell by nearly $700 from 1989 through 1992.
Surveys at the time showed that their median pay was $90,000, even though they were required to attend only a handful of meetings each year.
The median pay was $9.12 per hour or $18,970 per year.