7 Careers Where Women Make More Money Than Men

It's a sad fact that women on average earn just 77 cents for every dollar their male peers take home. But in at least these seven career fields, according to recently released government data, women make more money than men.

The U.S. Census Bureau analyzed salary data from 2014 for working men and women in more than 550 career fields, finding just seven in which women out-earn men. In three fields—including industrial truck and tractor operators, computer and office machine repairers, and biological scientists—women were paid as well as their male peers, leaving more than 500 careers in which women earn significantly less than men.

Here, according to the Bureau, are the careers in which women earn more than men:

1. Tour and travel guides: Women earn 114.8 percent of what their male peers make.

2. Musicians, singers, and related workers: Women earn 107.6 percent of what their male peers make.

3. Transportation, storage, and distribution managers: Women earn 107.1 percent of what their male peers make.

4. Dietitians and nutritionists: Women earn 105.7 percent of what their male peers make.

5. Residential advisors: Women earn 100.8 percent of what their male peers make.

6. Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products: Women earn 100.6 percent of what their male peers make.

7. Counselors: Women earn 100.5 percent of what their male peers make.

As for those 500-plus careers in which women's pay lags sadly behind, these seven career fields have the furthest to go to reach pay equality, the statistics show:

1. Financial Specialists: Women earn just 53.7 percent of what their male peers make.

2. Aircraft mechanics and service technicians: Women earn just 56 percent of what their male peers make.

3. Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents: Women earn just 57 percent of what their male peers make.

4. Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers: Women earn just 57.4 percent of what their male peers make.

5. Photographic process workers and processing machine operators: Women earn just 58.3 percent of what their male peers make.

6. Financial clerks: Women earn just 61.1 percent of what their male peers make.

7. Personal financial advisers: Women earn just 63.1 percent of what their male peers make.

ADVICE! Stop Exaggerating This Skill on Your CV Immediately

We’re all guilty of stretching the truth on our résumés. (Of course we single-handedly boosted our company’s year-end numbers.) But according to a recent survey, many of us are also exaggerating one specific skill to look smarter to potential employers—and it’s one fib that could easily be found out. What is it? Read on.

Language-learning app Babbel recently surveyed 3,000 English speakers in the U.S. and the U.K., and discovered that 12 percent—that’s one in eight people—have exaggerated their language skills on their résumé, claiming to speak a second language when they only speak English. Why? The survey revealed that 71 percent of Americans—and 64 percent of U.K. residents—think speaking more than one language makes a person seem more attractive—even to employers. In fact, 26 percent of Americans think that a lack of language skills could even hold them back in their careers.

But we’re not going out and actually taking French lessons—even if we’re adding a second language to our résumés. Americans think French will make them most appealing—read: smart-sounding—to their potential employers, followed closely by German. U.K. residents, meanwhile, might be more likely to add Russian—yes, Russian—to their résumés.

Yes, adding a second-language skill may make you seem more worldly or educated. And by adding, say, Russian to your list of skills, you run little risk of being found out. (Still, we're not saying to do it.)

But before you add a more commonly spoken second-language to your résumé, ask yourself if this particular lie is really worth it. Because if you interview with a woman who spent a semester abroad in Paris, your fib will quickly be found out—likely costing you the job you could have snagged on your real smarts alone.