Usual Weekly Earnings Summary

For release 10:00 a.m. (ET) Wednesday, April 16, 2025 		                  USDL-25-0489

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                      USUAL WEEKLY EARNINGS OF WAGE AND SALARY WORKERS
                                       FIRST QUARTER 2025


Median weekly earnings of the nation's 120.9 million full-time wage and salary workers were
$1,194 in the first quarter of 2025 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported today. This was 4.8 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a
gain of 2.7 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the
same period.

Data on usual weekly earnings are collected as part of the Current Population Survey, a
nationwide sample survey of households in which respondents are asked, among other things,
how much each wage and salary worker usually earns. (See the Technical Note in this news
release.) Data shown in this news release are not seasonally adjusted unless otherwise
specified.

Highlights from the first-quarter data:

 --Median weekly earnings of full-time workers were $1,194 in the first quarter of 2025. Women 
   had median weekly earnings of $1,096, or 83.9 percent of the $1,307 median for men. (See 
   table 2.)

 --The women's-to-men's earnings ratio varied by race and ethnicity. White women earned 82.2 
   percent as much as their male counterparts, compared with 96.8 percent for Black women, 79.9
   percent for Asian women, and 88.7 percent for Hispanic women. (See table 2.)

 --Among the major race and ethnicity groups, median earnings of Hispanic people who worked 
   full time ($929) were lower than those of people who are Black ($1,000), White ($1,219), and 
   Asian ($1,585). By sex, median weekly earnings for Black men were $1,017, or 75.8 percent of 
   the median for White men ($1,342). Median earnings for Hispanic men were $991, or 73.8 percent
   of the median for White men. The differences were smaller among women, as Black women's median
   earnings were $984, or 89.2 percent of those for White women ($1,103), and earnings for 
   Hispanic women were $879, or 79.7 percent of those for White women. Earnings of Asian men 
   ($1,822) and women ($1,455) were higher than those of their White counterparts. (See table 2.)

 --By age, usual weekly earnings were highest for men age 35 and over: median weekly earnings 
   were $1,448 for men ages 35 to 44, $1,512 for men ages 45 to 54, $1,467 for men ages 55 to 64, 
   and $1,425 for men age 65 and over. Among women, usual weekly earnings were highest for workers 
   ages 35 to 54: median weekly earnings were $1,212 for women ages 35 to 44 and $1,233 for women 
   ages 45 to 54. Men and women ages 16 to 24 had the lowest median weekly earnings, $795 and $733,
   respectively. The women's-to-men's earnings ratio also varied by age. Women ages 16 to 24 earned
   92.2 percent as much as men in the same age group, compared with 84.0 percent for those ages 25 
   to 54 and 77.1 percent for those age 55 and over. (See table 3.)

 --Among the major occupational groups, people employed full time in management, professional, and 
   related occupations had the highest median weekly earnings--$1,902 for men and $1,441 for women. 
   Among men and women, those employed in service occupations earned the least at $886 and $720, 
   respectively. (See table 4.)

 --By educational attainment, full-time workers age 25 and over without a high school diploma had 
   median weekly earnings of $743, high school graduates (no college) had earnings of $953, and those
   holding at least a bachelor's degree had earnings of $1,754. Among college graduates with advanced
   degrees (master's, professional, and doctoral degrees), the highest earning 10 percent of male 
   workers made $5,079 or more per week, and their female counterparts made $3,528 or more. (See 
   table 5.)

 --Seasonally adjusted median weekly earnings were little changed at $1,192 in the first quarter of 
   2025. (See table 1.)


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|               Revision of Seasonally Adjusted Usual Weekly Earnings Data		     |
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| Seasonally adjusted data for median usual weekly earnings in constant (1982-84) dollars    |
| have been updated using revised seasonally adjusted data for the Consumer Price Index	     |
| for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). (Data are shown in table 1 of this news release.)         |
| Seasonally adjusted constant (1982-84) dollar estimates back to the first quarter of 2020  |
| were subject to revision.								     |
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