Median usual weekly earnings $808 in first quarter 2015

Median weekly earnings of the nation’s 107.2 million full-time wage and salary workers were $808 in the first quarter of 2015. Women who usually worked full time had median weekly earnings of $730, or 81.6 percent of the $895 median for men.

Median weekly earnings for Black or African American men working at full-time jobs were $694 per week, or 75.6 percent of the median for White men ($918). The difference was smaller among women, as Black women’s median earnings ($614) were 82.3 percent of those for White women ($746). Overall, median earnings of Hispanics or Latinos who worked full time ($590) were lower than those of Blacks ($650), Whites ($835), and Asians ($966).

The women's-to-men's earnings ratio varied by race and ethnicity. White women earned 81.3 percent as much as their male counterparts. The ratios were 88.5 percent for Blacks or African Americans, 79.7 percent for Asians, and 89.4 percent for Hispanics or Latinos.

These data are from the Current Population Survey and are not seasonally adjusted. To learn more, see “Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers: First Quarter 2015” (HTML) (PDF). People whose ethnicity is Hispanic or Latino may be of any race.