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Married men are earning much more money, on average, than everyone else in America, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The St. Louis Fed plotted the income of

workers with at least a high school diploma by age, gender and marital status and found that the wages of married men are higher than those of single men, married women and single women, and

that's true at every age from 20 to 64. The difference is most pronounced at around age 45, when married men's earnings peak. _Guillaume Vandenbroucke, "__Married Men Sit

Atop the Wage Ladder__," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 24, 2018_ This could just be a correlation: The data does "not imply that being married increases

a man's wage," Guillaume Vandenbroucke, author of the report, notes. "It might be that men with higher wages are more likely to marry; therefore, the average married man earns

a higher wage than the average single man." Also of note is that married and single women earn very similar wages. That's surprising, says Vandenbroucke, since married women are

more likely to have children than single women, and that's "not consistent with the view that the gender wage gap results from women having children earlier in life and losing

ground in human capital accumulation relative to men." In short, the gender wage gap is a complex topic, says Vandenbroucke: "Progress may come from asking different questions: not

just why women earn less than men (although not compared with single men), but also why married men earn so much more than everyone else." Here's the full breakdown of how much

each group earns at every age. The numbers, provided by the St. Louis Fed, represent the wage and salary income of employed men and women with at least a high school diploma. AGE 20 Single

women: $10,701 Single men: $13,933 Married women: $14,312 MARRIED MEN: $27,040 At age 20, on average, married men are making $16,339 a year more than single women, $13,107 more than single

men and $12,728 more than married women. AGE 25 Single women: $28,241 Single men: $32,585 Married women: $28,356 MARRIED MEN: $38,355 At age 25, on average, married men are making $10,114 a

year more than single women, $5,770 more than single men and $9,999 more than married women. AGE 30 Single women: $36,204 Single men: $41,942 Married women: $40,951 MARRIED MEN: $55,138 At

age 30, on average, married men are making $18,934 a year more than single women, $13,196 more than single men and $14,187 more than married women. AGE 35 Single women: $41,338 Single men:

$47,311 Married women: $48,834 MARRIED MEN: $70,374 At age 35, on average, married men are making $29,036 a year more than single women, $23,063 more than single men and $21,540 more than

married women. AGE 40 Single women: $43,103 Single men: $46,610 Married women: $50,621 MARRIED MEN: $80,125 At age 40, on average, married men are making $37,022 a year more than single

women, $33,515 more than single men and $29,504 more than married women. AGE 45 Single women: $48,095 Single men: $49,754 Married women: $51,384 MARRIED MEN: $85,233 At age 45, on average,

married men are making $37,138 a year more than single women, $35,479 more than single men and $33,849 more than married women. AGE 50 Single women: $47,272 Single men: $48,035 Married

women: $49,946 MARRIED MEN: $82,968 At age 50, on average, married men are making $35,696 a year more than single women, $34,933 more than single men and $33,022 more than married women. AGE

55 Single women: $49,753 Single men: $51,102 Married women: $49,661 MARRIED MEN: $82,545 At age 55, on average, married men are making $32,792 a year more than single women, $31,443 more

than single men and $32,884 more than married women. AGE 60 Single women: $47,914 Single men: $49,671 Married women: $46,238 MARRIED MEN: $79,484 At age 60, on average, married men are

making $31,570 a year more than single women, $29,813 more than single men and $33,246 more than married women. AGE 65 Single women: $41,449 Single men: $45,230 Married women: $40,785

MARRIED MEN: $69,676 At age 65, on average, married men are making $28,227 a year more than single women, $24,446 more than single men and $28,891 more than married women. _DON'T MISS:

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