October 27, 2011 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Median weekly earnings, third quarter 2011

Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, not seasonally adjusted, third quarter 2011
Ethnicity	Total	Men	Women
Total	$753	$827	$673
White	772	847	699
Black or African American	616	661	596
Asian	869	1,015	712
Hispanic or Latino	545	562	522

These data are featured in the TED article, Median weekly earnings, third quarter 2011.

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