A more comprehensive look at employment: Employment-to-population ratios for select workers by race/ethnicity and gender, February 2020, April 2020, November 2021, and December 2021

February 2020 April 2020 November 2021 December 2021
White men 69.70% 60.50% 67.70% 67.90%
White women 56.60% 47.10% 54.50% 54.90%
Black men 63.70% 53.20% 61.60% 61.10%
Black women 60.80% 49.70% 57.40% 57.30%
Latinx men 78.40% 64.30% 76.70% 76.10%
Latinx women 58.90% 45.10% 55.70% 56.30%

Notes: Data are for workers ages 20 and older. Racial and ethnic categories are not mutually exclusive; white and Black data do not exclude Latinx workers of each race. Employment to population levels are labeled for February, April, and the trough in between.

Source: EPI analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Household Data Table A-2, and Table A-3.

View the underlying data on epi.org.