January 26, 2012 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Median weekly earnings, fourth quarter 2011

Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by age, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and sex, not seasonally adjusted, 4th quarter 2011
Characteristic	Men	Women
Age
16 to 24 years	$466	$420
25 to 34 years	715	655
35 to 44 years	943	737
45 to 54 years	993	757
55 to 64 years	1,029	742
65 years and over	894	659
Race and ethnicity, 16 years and over
White	871	709
Black or African American	660	601
Asian	960	771
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity	562	508

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

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