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Posted: 2017-04-04T09:45:00Z | Updated: 2017-04-04T17:05:14Z

Tuesday is Equal Pay Day, the date that marks how far into the year women must work to earn what their male counterparts were paid the prior year.

A report released Monday by the National Partnership for Women and Families breaks down how bad the wage gap is in each state, including Washington D.C., and highlights which women face the biggest pay disparity. (Spoiler alert: Its not white women.) The analysis uses census data and compares pay for year-round, full-time women and men.

Equal Pay Day is a painful reminder that women in this country have had to work more than three months into this year just to catch up with what men were paid last year, National Partnership President Debra L. Ness said in a statement with the analysis.

Heres where and for whom the wage gap is the worst.

Women face a wage gap in every single state

A gender-wage gap exists in every state .

Overall, women employed full time, year-round in the U.S. are paid 80 cents for every dollar paid to men. The difference in median income $40,742 for women and $51,212 for men amounts to a annual gap of $10,470.

On average, American women lose out on a combined total of more than $840 billion each year.

The wage gap is present across the four industries that employ the most full-time employees health care and social assistance, manufacturing, retail trade, and educational services and the four occupations with the most full-time workers: sales, production, management, and office and administrative support, according to the report.

The wage gap isnt a symptom of women being less educated. Women with doctoral degrees are paid less than men with masters degrees, and women with masters degrees are paid less than men with bachelors degrees, the report noted.