A more comprehensive look at employment: Employment-to-population ratios for select workers by race/ethnicity and gender, February 2020, April 2020, February 2024, and March 2024

characteristic February 2020 April 2020 February 2024 March 2024
White men 69.6% 60.5% 67.4% 67.8%
White women 56.6% 47.1% 56.0% 56.0%
Black men 63.7% 53.1% 65.5% 65.3%
Black women 60.8% 49.6% 60.6% 59.5%
Latinx men 78.2% 64.3% 76.3% 76.5%
Latinx women 59.1% 45.2% 58.4% 58.4%

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.