January 10, 2012 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Women's earnings as a percent of men's in 2010
Women's earnings as percent of men's, median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, in current dollars, by race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 1980–2010 annual averages
| Year |
Total |
White |
Black or
African American |
Hispanic or
Latino ethnicity |
Asian |
1980 |
64.2 |
63.4 |
75.8 |
73.5 |
— |
1990 |
71.9 |
71.5 |
85.3 |
87.4 |
— |
2000 |
76.9 |
75.8 |
84.1 |
87.8 |
79.9 |
2010 |
81.2 |
80.5 |
93.5 |
90.7 |
82.6 |
These data are featured in the TED article, Women's earnings as a percent of men's in 2010.
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