Median weekly earnings of the nation's 110.4 million
full-time wage and salary workers were $803 in the third quarter of 2015 (not
seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This
was 1.6 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 0.1 percent
in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same
period.
Data on usual weekly earnings are collected as part of
the Current Population Survey, a nationwide sample survey of households in
which respondents are asked, among other things, how much each wage and salary
worker usually earns. (See the Technical Note.) Data shown in this release are
not seasonally adjusted unless otherwise specified. Highlights from the
third-quarter data are:
--Median weekly
earnings were $803 in the third quarter of 2015. Women who usually worked full time had median weekly
earnings of $721, or 81.1 percent of
the $889 median for men. (See table 2.)
--The
women's-to-men's earnings ratio varied by race and ethnicity. White women earned 80.5 percent as much as their male
counterparts, compared with 93.3 percent for black women, 72.2 percent for
Asian women, and 91.0 percent for Hispanic
women. (See table 2.)
--Among the major
race and ethnicity groups, median weekly earnings for black men working at full-time jobs were $652 per
week, or 70.9 percent of the median
for white men ($919). The difference was less among women, as black women's median earnings ($608) were 82.2
percent of those for white women ($740). Overall, median earnings of
Hispanics who worked full time ($602) were lower than those of blacks ($624),
whites ($829), and Asians ($974). (See
table 2.)
--Usual weekly
earnings of full-time workers varied by age. Among men, those age 55 to 64 had the highest median weekly
earnings, at $1,077. Usual weekly earnings were highest for women age 35 to
64: weekly earnings were $788 for women age 35 to 44, $794 for women age 45
to 54, and $789 for women age 55 to
64. Workers age 16 to 24 had the lowest median weekly earnings, at $491. (See table 3.)
--Among the major
occupational groups, persons employed full time in management, professional, and related occupations had
the highest median weekly earnings--
$1,381 for men and $1,000 for women. Men and women employed in service
jobs had much lower earnings, $571
and $465, respectively. (See table 4.)
--By educational
attainment, full-time workers age 25 and over without a high school diploma had median weekly earnings
of $492, compared with $672 for high
school graduates (no college) and $1,234 for those holding at least a bachelor's degree. Among college graduates
with advanced degrees (professional or master's degree and above), the highest
earning 10 percent of male workers made $3,480 or more per week, compared with
$2,413 or more for their female counterparts. (See table 5.)
--Seasonally
adjusted median weekly earnings were $809 in the third quarter of 2015, little changed from the previous quarter
($803). (See table 1.)
Source: BLS
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