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The Wage Gap, by Gender and Race
(median annual earnings of black men and women,
Hispanic men and women, and white women as a percentage of white men's
median annual earnings)
| Year |
White
men |
Black
men |
Hispanic
men |
White
women |
Black
women |
Hispanic
women |
| 1970 |
100% |
69.0% |
n.a. |
58.7% |
48.2% |
n.a. |
| 1975 |
100 |
74.3 |
72.1% |
57.5 |
55.4 |
49.3% |
| 1980 |
100 |
70.7 |
70.8 |
58.9 |
55.7 |
50.5 |
| 1985 |
100 |
69.7 |
68.0 |
63.0 |
57.1 |
52.1 |
| 1990 |
100 |
73.1 |
66.3 |
69.4 |
62.5 |
54.3 |
| 1992 |
100 |
72.6 |
63.3 |
70.0 |
64.0 |
55.4 |
| 1994 |
100 |
75.1 |
64.3 |
71.6 |
63.0 |
55.6 |
| 1995 |
100 |
75.9 |
63.3 |
71.2 |
64.2 |
53.4 |
| 1996 |
100 |
80.0 |
63.9 |
73.3 |
65.1 |
56.6 |
| 1997 |
100 |
75.1 |
61.4 |
71.9 |
62.6 |
53.9 |
| 1998 |
100 |
74.9 |
61.6 |
72.6 |
62.6 |
53.1 |
| 1999 |
100 |
80.6 |
61.6 |
71.6 |
65.0 |
52.1 |
| 2000 |
100 |
78.2 |
63.4 |
72.2 |
64.6 |
52.8 |
| 2003 |
100 |
78.2 |
63.3 |
75.6 |
65.4 |
54.3 |
| 2004 |
100 |
74.5 |
63.2 |
76.7 |
68.4 |
56.9 |
| 2006 |
100 |
72.1 |
57.5 |
73.5 |
63.6 |
51.7 |
Source: U.S. Current Population Survey and
the National Committee on Pay Equity.
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education,
Inc. All rights reserved.
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