The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand and the determination to apply the best of ourselves. While that price comes from within, women should still be aware of the price of their time and effort. Below is an awesome chart of average brewery salaries via craftbeer.com.

Average Brewery Salaries

Learn your women-in-beer stats

Beer’s magnetism attracts all races, all ages and all genders. One might say the diversity of craft beer in America represents the diversity of craft beer characters in the industry. While it’s easy to say one of the most passionate and character-driven demographics in the craft beer industry is women, is that really true? How many women are actually working in the beer industry? We decided to ask Bart Watson, economist for the Brewers Association (BA). Watson shared with us some interesting data from a Stanford research team, which can be attributed to Dr. Sarah Soule and Dr. Shelley Correll, both of Stanford University. Listen to these numbers:

For founder (of breweries from 2014 that were still open at the time of their research), they coded 1,993 breweries (the rest they couldn’t find info on, etc.). Of those, they found that 20 percent (399) had at least one female founder, of which 40 (2 percent) had an exclusively female founder(s). For CEO, they coded 2,095, of which they found that 17 percent (349) had at least one female CEO — only 67 of those (3 percent) had an exclusively female CEO, the rest were co-CEOs with at least one male (typically wife/husband team). The headbrewer/brewmaster stats show the least females. They coded 1,717 and only found 4 percent (76) with a female head brewer/brewmaster. Of those, only 2 percent (38) were exclusively female. In all, they were able to code at least one of those categories for 2,536 breweries. Of those 21 percent (543) had at least one woman as founder/CEO/or brewmaster/head brewer.

While this information is a few years old, we can see that women still have an enormous space to grow within the brewing industry. According to the Beer Institute, the industry supports some 1.75 million American jobs, and it’s growing aggressively — craft breweries specifically. In 2015, craft brewers produced 24.5 million bbls and saw a 13 percent rise in volume and a 16 percent increase in retail dollar value. Craft breweries already support an ethos of community empowerment, environmentalism and charity, so why not increasing gender equality? It seems like a natural fit.

In terms of sheer economics, we will definitely need more women as workers and as beer drinkers in order for the industry to grow. Looking at the stats, younger women are identifying more with beer and craft beer specifically. On women as customers, here’s some Nielsen data via Watson and the BA. The percent in the graph is the percent of craft volume that a group consumes. The second is their “index” where 100 means that group consumes the same percent as their percent in the population, so young women overindex on craft and older women under-index.