--- title: Gender Pay Gap and Grades: Female A Students Make Less Than Male C Students description: More bad news about the gender pay gap canonical: https://time.com/110443/grades-gender-pay-gap/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-23T16:54:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:57.486Z og:title: Gender Pay Gap and Grades: Female A Students Make Less Than Male C Students og:description: More bad news about the gender pay gap og:url: https://time.com/110443/grades-gender-pay-gap/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Gender Pay Gap and Grades: Female A Students Make Less Than Male C Students twitter:description: More bad news about the gender pay gap twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Female 'A' Students End Up Making Less Than Male 'C' Students > Sponsored content. 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The higher the grade point average (GPA) you have in high school, the more money you’ll make later in life, [according to a new University of Miami study](http://www.as.miami.edu/news/news-archive/your-high-school-gpa-could-affect-your-income.html) that will be published in the upcoming issue of the Eastern Economic Journal. But high-achieving female students still won’t earn as much as male counterparts who didn’t work quite as hard: a woman who had a 4.0 GPA in high school still makes less on average than a man who had a 2.5 GPA. The chart below illustrates the earnings differences between men and women. The men are in red, the women in green. Personal earnings are listed on the X-axis, high school GPA on the Y-axis.  Michael French, the University of Miami The gender pay gap has been [hotly debated](http://time.com/76023/pay-gap-gender-kids-allowances/), with some attributing it to job choice, child rearing issues or just plain discrimination. And the issue has recently become more contentious as disputes over [how wide the gap actually is](http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/07/the-pay-gap-is-not-as-bad-as-you-and-sheryl-sandberg-think/) continue to grow. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/110443/grades-gender-pay-gap/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/110443/grades-gender-pay-gap/"},"headline":"Female 'A' Students End Up Making Less Than Male 'C' Students","datePublished":"2014-05-23T16:54:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:42:57.486Z","description":"High school GPA is just one of many factors, including gender, that determine a student’s future income, according to a new study. 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