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Among full-time wage and salary workers, union members had median usual weekly earnings of $1,095 in 2019, while those who were not union members had median weekly earnings of $892.
Characteristic | Members of unions | Nonunion |
---|---|---|
Total |
$1,095 | $892 |
Total men |
1,147 | 986 |
Total women |
1,018 | 792 |
White |
1,127 | 917 |
White Men |
1,181 | 1,012 |
White women |
1,044 | 810 |
Black or African American |
905 | 711 |
Black or African American men |
948 | 746 |
Black or African American women |
874 | 683 |
Asian |
1,173 | 1,179 |
Asian men |
1,151 | 1,357 |
Asian women |
1,216 | 995 |
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity |
954 | 686 |
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, men |
1,009 | 722 |
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, women |
875 | 622 |
Note: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Data refer to the sole or principal job of full-time wage and salary workers. All self-employed workers are excluded, both those with incorporated businesses as well as those with unincorporated businesses. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. |
In 2019, white union members had median usual weekly earnings of $1,127, compared to $917 for white nonunion workers. Black or African American union members had median usual weekly earnings of $905, compared to $711 for black nonunion workers. Asian union members had median usual weekly earnings of $1,173, about the same as the figure of $1,179 for Asian nonunion workers.
Union members of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity had median usual weekly earnings of $954, compared to $686 for nonunion workers of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.
These data are from the Current Population Survey. The comparisons of earnings are on a broad level and do not control for many factors that can be important in explaining earnings differences, including variations in the distributions of union members and nonunion employees by occupation, industry, age, firm size, or geographic region. To learn more, see “Union Members — 2019.” Union membership data do not include self-employed workers.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Nonunion workers had weekly earnings 81 percent of union members in 2019 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2020/nonunion-workers-had-weekly-earnings-81-percent-of-union-members-in-2019.htm (visited December 13, 2024).