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

characteristic February 2020 April 2020 April 2025 May 2025
White men 69.6% 60.5% 67.2% 67.1%
White women 56.6% 47.1% 56.1% 55.7%
Black men 63.4% 53.0% 65.3% 64.9%
Black women 60.7% 49.4% 57.5% 57.8%
Latinx men 78.2% 64.3% 75.4% 75.7%
Latinx women 58.8% 44.7% 59.6% 59.1%

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.