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Median weekly earnings of the nation’s 104.2 million full-time wage and salary workers were $776 in the second quarter of 2013. This was 0.6 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 1.4 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers over the same period. Data shown are not seasonally adjusted.
Ethnic group | Total | Men | Women |
---|---|---|---|
Total | $776 | $860 | $707 |
White | 799 | 885 | 718 |
Black | 634 | 666 | 610 |
Asian | 973 | 1,117 | 861 |
Hispanic | 572 | 583 | 549 |
Women who usually worked full time had median weekly earnings of $707, or 82.2 percent of the $860 median for men.
The women's-to-men's earnings ratio varied by race and ethnicity. White women earned 81.1 percent as much as their male counterparts compared with black (91.6 percent), Asian (77.1 percent), and Hispanic women (94.2 percent).
Among the major race and ethnicity groups, median weekly earnings for black men working at full‑time jobs were $666, or 75.3 percent of the median for white men ($885). The difference was less among women, as black women’s median weekly earnings ($610) were 85.0 percent of those for white women ($718). Overall, median weekly earnings of Hispanics who worked full time ($572) were lower than those of blacks ($634), whites ($799), and Asians ($973).
These earnings data are produced by the Current Population Survey. For more information, see “Usual weekly earnings of Wage and Salary Workers—Second Quarter 2013” (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-13-1345. Full-time workers are those who usually work 35 hours or more per week at their sole or principal job. Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Median weekly earnings, second quarter 2013 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2013/ted_20130724.htm (visited November 02, 2024).