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Nonunion workers had weekly earnings 81 percent of union members in 2019
February 28, 2020
Among full-time wage and salary workers, union members had median usual weekly earnings of $1,095 in 2019, while those who were not union members had median weekly earnings of $892.
Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by union affiliation and other characteristics, 2019 annual averages
Characteristic
Members of unions
Nonunion
Total
$1,095
$892
Total men
1,147
986
Total women
1,018
792
White
1,127
917
White Men
1,181
1,012
White women
1,044
810
Black or African American
905
711
Black or African American men
948
746
Black or African American women
874
683
Asian
1,173
1,179
Asian men
1,151
1,357
Asian women
1,216
995
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity
954
686
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, men
1,009
722
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, women
875
622
Note: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Data refer to the sole or principal job of full-time wage and salary workers. All self-employed workers are excluded, both those with incorporated businesses as well as those with unincorporated businesses. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
In 2019, white union members had median usual weekly earnings of $1,127, compared to $917 for white nonunion workers. Black or African American union members had median usual weekly earnings of $905, compared to $711 for black nonunion workers. Asian union members had median usual weekly earnings of $1,173, about the same as the figure of $1,179 for Asian nonunion workers.
Union members of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity had median usual weekly earnings of $954, compared to $686 for nonunion workers of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.
These data are from the Current Population Survey. The comparisons of earnings are on a broad level and do not control for many factors that can be important in explaining earnings differences, including variations in the distributions of union members and nonunion employees by occupation, industry, age, firm size, or geographic region. To learn more, see “Union Members — 2019.” Union membership data do not include self-employed workers.
United States Department of Labor
