Bureau of Labor Statistics report: USUAL WEEKLY EARNINGS OF WAGE AND SALARY WORKERS FOURTH QUARTER 2018

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• Median weekly earnings of full-time workers were $900 in the fourth quarter of 2018. Women had median weekly earnings of $794, or 80.0 percent of the $993 median for men. (See table 2.)
  
  
• The women's-to-men's earnings ratio varied by race and ethnicity. White women earned 79.7 percent as much as their male counterparts, compared with 86.0 percent for Black women, 74.6 percent for Asian women, and 82.9 percent for Hispanic women. (See table 2.)
  
  
• Among the major race and ethnicity groups, median weekly earnings of Blacks ($712) and Hispanics ($684) working at full-time jobs were lower than those of Whites ($931) and Asians ($1,095). By sex, median weekly earnings for Black men were $773, or 75.5 percent of the median for White men ($1,024). Median earnings for Hispanic men were $736, or 71.9 percent of the median for White men. The difference was less among women, as Black women's median earnings were $665, or 81.5 percent of those for White women ($816), and earnings for Hispanic women were $610, or 74.8 percent of those for White women. Earnings of Asian men ($1,256) and women ($937) were higher than those of their White counterparts. (See table 2.)
  
  
• By age, median weekly earnings were highest for men ages 55 to 64 at $1,191. Usual weekly earnings were highest for women ages 35 to 64: median weekly earnings were $877 for women ages 35 to 44, $876 for women ages 45 to 54, and $895 for women ages 55 to 64. Men and women ages 16 to 24 had the lowest median weekly earnings, $609 and $539, respectively. (See table 3.)

• Among the major occupational groups, persons employed full time in management, professional, and related occupations had the highest median weekly earnings—$1,505 for men and $1,102 for women. Men and women employed in service jobs earned the least, $675 and $512, respectively. (See table 4.)
  
  
• By educational attainment, full-time workers age 25 and over without a high school diploma had median weekly earnings of $543, compared with $746 for high school graduates (no college) and $1,340 for those holding at least a bachelor's degree. Among college graduates with advanced degrees (master's, professional, and doctoral degrees), the highest earning 10 percent of male workers made $3,909 or more per week, compared with $2,884 or more for their female counterparts. (See table 5.)
  
  
• Seasonally adjusted median weekly earnings were $897 in the fourth quarter of 2018, little changed from the previous quarter ($893). (See table 1.)