Latinx--white wage gaps persist no matter how you slice the data: Average wages of Latinx and white workers, by gender, wage percentile, and education, 2019
Latinx | White | |
---|---|---|
Overall | $20.53 | $28.66 |
Men | $21.93 | $32.20 |
Women | $18.78 | $24.83 |
10th | $9.94 | $10.56 |
Median | $15.89 | $21.32 |
95th | $46.33 | $73.38 |
High school | $17.88 | $20.04 |
College | $30.35 | $35.90 |
Advanced degree | $40.80 | $45.29 |
Note: White refers to non-Latinx whites; persons whose ethnicity is identified as Latinx may be of any race.
Source: Authors’ analysis of 2019 data from Economic Policy Institute, State of Working America Data Library, [Median/average hourly wages], and EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0 (2020a), https://microdata.epi.org, adapted from State of Working America Wages 2019.