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

characteristic February 2020 April 2020 November 2025 December 2025
White men 69.6% 60.5% 67.0% 67.0%
White women 56.6% 47.1% 55.5% 55.6%
Black men 63.4% 53.0% 65.1% 64.9%
Black women 60.7% 49.4% 58.1% 57.8%
Latinx men 78.2% 64.3% 75.7% 75.9%
Latinx women 58.8% 44.7% 60.1% 59.8%
Economic Policy Institute

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.