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In 2021, median weekly earnings for wage and salary workers who usually worked full time were $998. Median earnings for women were $912, or 83.1 percent of men’s earnings.
Year | Total | White | Black | Asian | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2000 |
76.9% | 75.8% | 84.1% | 79.9% | 87.8% |
2001 |
76.4 | 75.8 | 85.8 | 76.9 | 88.2 |
2002 |
77.9 | 77.9 | 90.3 | 74.9 | 88.0 |
2003 |
79.4 | 79.3 | 88.5 | 77.5 | 88.4 |
2004 |
80.4 | 79.8 | 88.8 | 76.4 | 87.3 |
2005 |
81.0 | 80.2 | 89.3 | 80.6 | 87.7 |
2006 |
80.8 | 80.0 | 87.8 | 79.3 | 87.1 |
2007 |
80.2 | 79.4 | 88.8 | 78.1 | 91.0 |
2008 |
79.9 | 79.3 | 89.4 | 78.0 | 89.6 |
2009 |
80.2 | 79.2 | 93.7 | 81.8 | 89.5 |
2010 |
81.2 | 80.5 | 93.5 | 82.6 | 90.7 |
2011 |
82.2 | 82.1 | 91.1 | 77.4 | 90.7 |
2012 |
80.9 | 80.8 | 90.1 | 73.0 | 88.0 |
2013 |
82.1 | 81.7 | 91.3 | 77.3 | 91.1 |
2014 |
82.5 | 81.8 | 89.9 | 77.9 | 89.0 |
2015 |
81.1 | 80.8 | 90.4 | 77.7 | 89.7 |
2016 |
81.9 | 81.3 | 89.3 | 78.4 | 88.4 |
2017 |
81.8 | 81.9 | 92.5 | 74.8 | 87.4 |
2018 |
81.1 | 81.5 | 89.0 | 75.5 | 85.7 |
2019 |
81.5 | 81.1 | 91.5 | 76.7 | 85.9 |
2020 |
82.3 | 81.5 | 92.0 | 79.0 | 88.5 |
2021 |
83.1 | 82.2 | 94.1 | 78.5 | 87.6 |
The women's-to-men's earnings ratio varied by race and Hispanic ethnicity. White women earned 82.2 percent as much as their male counterparts, compared with 94.1 percent for Black women, 78.5 percent for Asian women, and 87.6 percent for Hispanic women.
These data are from the Current Population Survey. For more information, see "Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers: Fourth Quarter 2021." Also see more charts of usual weekly earnings data. Full-time workers usually work 35 hours or more per week at their sole or main job. People whose ethnicity is Hispanic or Latino may be of any race.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Median earnings for women in 2021 were 83.1 percent of the median for men at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/median-earnings-for-women-in-2021-were-83-1-percent-of-the-median-for-men.htm (visited March 16, 2025).