October 19, 2012 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Median weekly earnings by age, sex, race, and ethnicity, third quarter 2012

Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by age, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and sex, not seasonally adjusted, 3rd quarter 2012
Characteristic	Men	Women
Age
16 to 24 years	$459	$414
25 to 34 years	720	648
35 to 44 years	944	740
45 to 54 years	976	754
55 to 64 years	980	766
65 years and over	824	673
Race and ethnicity, 16 years and over
White	854	712
Black or African American	633	590
Asian	1,043	762
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity	586	513

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