Chart: Real median earnings of full-time, full-year black workers and white workers, by gender, 2000–2017

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Real median earnings of full-time, full-year black workers and white workers, by gender, 2000–2017

Year	White men	White women	Black men	Black women
2000	$58,879	42,591	42,967	35,813
2001	57,850	42,750	43,513	36,912
2002	58,041	42,907	42,928	36,731
2003	59,797	42,828	43,076	36,027
2004	59,244	42,313	40,703	36,079
2005	58,431	42,925	41,620	37,336
2006	59,013	43,552	42,377	36,992
2007	59,649	43,549	42,746	36,751
2008	58,486	42,673	42,583	35,939
2009	58,874	44,132	42,944	36,448
2010	58,544	45,392	41,513	36,396
2011	57,146	44,057	43,127	36,593
2012	56,193	43,761	41,197	36,244
2013	57,250	43,549	42,160	35,069
2014	57,493	43,347	42,204	34,756
2015	59,188	44,556	42,530	37,459
2016	59,171	46,725	42,181	37,006
2017	60,388	46,513	42,076	36,735

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Notes: Earnings are wage and salary income. White refers to non-Hispanic whites; black refers to blacks alone. Because a redesign of the CPS ASEC in 2013 did not directly affect earnings, the data for 2013 are an average of the new and old series. Shaded areas denote recessions.

Source: EPI analysis of Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) Historical Income Tables (Table P-38)

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