July 21, 2011 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Median usual weekly earnings, by race, ethnicity, and education, second quarter, 2011

Quartiles of usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by race and ethnicity and educational attainment, 2nd quarter 2011
Characteristic	First quartile	Second quartile	Third quartile
Total, 16 years and over	$498	$753	$1,160
White	508	770	1,184
Black or African American	421	623	918
Asian	531	872	1,378
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity	392	565	854
Total, 25 years and over	528	794	1,210
Less than a high school diploma	348	458	637
High school graduates, no college	465	643	928
Some college or associate degree	516	743	1,054
Bachelor's degree only	730	1,043	1,548

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