A more comprehensive look at employment: Employment-to-population ratios for select workers by race/ethnicity and gender, February 2020, April 2020, January 2025, and February 2025

characteristic February 2020 April 2020 January 2025 February 2025
White men 69.6% 60.5% 67.7% 67.0%
White women 56.6% 47.1% 55.9% 55.8%
Black men 63.4% 53.0% 64.2% 64.5%
Black women 60.7% 49.4% 59.2% 59.3%
Latinx men 78.2% 64.3% 76.0% 75.0%
Latinx women 58.8% 44.7% 58.8% 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.