Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained. A number of moderate members managed . . . to obtain a majority in a thin house.
Today, on average, a woman earns 79 cents for every dollar a man earns, and womenâs median annual earnings are $10,800 less than menâs, according to a report released by the Senate Joint Economic Committee Democratic Staff last April.
1 This can be either the earnings ratio or the actual pay gap. 2  Women earned on average $0.78 to every $1 earned by men in 2013 (78%) for annual earnings. 3  In 2014 women earned 82.5% of men's salaries b ased on median weekly earnings for full-time workers compared to 62.1% in 1979.