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September 14, 2011 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Occupation | Asian | White | Hispanic or Latino ethnicity | Black or African American | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | |
Management, professional, and related occupations |
$1,408 | $1,143 | $1,273 | $932 | $1,002 | $789 | $957 | $812 |
Sales and office occupations |
715 | 643 | 761 | 600 | 589 | 532 | 596 | 577 |
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations |
733 | 406 | 730 | 537 | 538 | 362 | 707 | 616 |
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations |
596 | 479 | 661 | 473 | 510 | 385 | 576 | 469 |
Service occupations |
555 | 473 | 559 | 423 | 437 | 387 | 498 | 420 |
These data are featured in the TED article, Earnings and employment by occupation, race, ethnicity, and sex, 2010.
Occupation | Asian | White | Hispanic or Latino ethnicity | Black or African American | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | |
Total |
100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Management, professional, and related occupations |
47.7 | 46.1 | 34.8 | 41.5 | 15.3 | 24.1 | 23.5 | 33.8 |
Sales and office occupations |
17.6 | 25.2 | 16.7 | 32.6 | 14.1 | 31.7 | 18.3 | 30.7 |
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations |
6.7 | 0.6 | 18.1 | 1.0 | 26.5 | 1.7 | 11.9 | 0.7 |
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations |
12.9 | 6.7 | 16.8 | 4.9 | 22.4 | 9.3 | 25.1 | 6.5 |
Service occupations |
15.1 | 21.3 | 13.6 | 20.1 | 21.8 | 33.2 | 21.2 | 28.3 |
These data are featured in the TED article, Earnings and employment by occupation, race, ethnicity, and sex, 2010.