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

characteristic February 2020 April 2020 November 2024 December 2024
White men 69.6% 60.5% 67.5% 67.6%
White women 56.7% 47.2% 55.7% 55.7%
Black men 63.4% 52.9% 64.6% 64.4%
Black women 60.7% 49.4% 58.6% 59.0%
Latinx men 78.3% 64.3% 75.8% 76.7%
Latinx women 58.8% 44.8% 58.6% 58.9%

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.