Equal pay study: Colorado women’s wage gap at $10,107 annually

Women in Colorado make about 80 cents for every dollar paid to men, amounting to a yearly gap in wages of $10,107, according to a study released this week by the National Partnership for Women and Families.

The report was released just before the national Equal Pay Day, which symbolizes how far into the year women must work to make the same amount that men made in the previous calendar year.

Colorado has the 36th largest cents-on-the-dollar gap in the country, according to the study, and the wage gap results in the loss of a combined total of nearly $7.5 billion every…