Chart: Black and Hispanic workers earn lower wages and have smaller gender wage disparities than their white and Asian American and Pacific Islander counterparts: Median wages by race/ethnicity and gender, 2019

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Black and Hispanic workers earn lower wages and have smaller gender wage disparities than their white and Asian American and Pacific Islander counterparts: Median wages by race/ethnicity and gender, 2019

	Women	Men
White	$19.23	$24.00
Black	$15.80	$16.89
Hispanic	$15.00	$17.00
AAPI	$21.50	$27.50

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Notes: AAPI refers to Asian American and Pacific Islander. Race and ethnicity categories are mutually exclusive (i.e., white non-Hispanic, Black non-Hispanic, AAPI non-Hispanic, and Hispanic any race). Wages are in 2019 dollars.

Source: Economic Policy Institute analysis of Current Population Survey basic monthly microdata from EPI Microdata Extracts, Version 1.0.24 (2021); https://microdata.epi.org.

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