Raising America’s Pay: Appendix Data

June 4, 2014

Appendix tables to Raising America’s Pay: Why It’s Our Central Economic Policy Challenge (EPI Briefing Paper No. 378)

 

Wage Data

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Miscellaneous

  • 1. Real average hourly compensation of production/nonsupervisory workers and total economy productivity, 1948–2013 (2013 dollars)
  • 2. Distribution of employment by multiple of poverty wage, overall and by gender and race/ethnicity, 1973–2013

Wages by wage groups

  • 3. Average annual wages, by wage group, 1947–2012 (2012 dollars)
  • 4. Hourly wages of all workers, by wage percentile, 1973–2013 (2013 dollars)
  • 5. Hourly wages of men, by wage percentile, 1973–2013 (2013 dollars)
  • 6. Hourly wages of women, by wage percentile, 1973–2013 (2013 dollars)
  • 7. Hourly wages of women as a percent of men’s hourly wages, by wage percentile, 1973–2013
  • 8. Hourly wages of non-Hispanic whites, by wage percentile, 1973–2013 (2013 dollars)
  • 9. Hourly wages of non-Hispanic blacks, by wage percentile, 1973–2013 (2013 dollars)
  • 10. Hourly wages of Hispanics, by wage percentile, 1973–2013 (2013 dollars)
  • 11. Hourly wages of non-Hispanic blacks as a percent of non-Hispanic white hourly wages, by wage percentile, 1973–2013
  • 12. Hourly wages of Hispanics as a percent of non-Hispanic white hourly wages, by wage percentile, 1973–2013

Education

  • 13. Various education wage gaps, 1979–2013
  • 14. Hourly wages of workers, by education attainment, 1973–2013 (2013 dollars)
  • 15. Hourly wages of men, by education attainment, 1973–2013 (2013 dollars)
  • 16. Hourly wages of women, by education attainment, 1973–2013 (2013 dollars)
  • 17. Hourly wages of college graduates, by wage percentile, 2000–2013 (2013 dollars)
  • 18. Entry-level wages of college graduates, by gender, 1973–2013 (2013 dollars)

Benefits

  • 19. Share of private-sector workers with employer-provided pension coverage, overall and by race/ethnicity and education attainment, 1979–2012
  • 20. Share of private-sector workers with employer-provided health insurance, overall and by race/ethnicity and education attainment, 1979–2012

 

Poverty and Income Data

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Poverty tables

  • 1. Share of bottom-fifth household income from various sources, 1979–2010
  • 2. Educational attainment of low-wage workers, 1979–2013

Poverty-level wages

  • 3. Distribution of employment by multiple of poverty wage, overall and by gender and race/ethnicity, 1973–2013

Income tables

  • 4. Real annual household income, by income group, 1979–2010
  • 5. Real annual household income of all households except elderly childless households, by income group, 1979–2010
  • 6. Top 1% share of transfer and market-based income, 1979–2010
  • 7. Per capita income, by various measures, 1947–2013
  • 8. Aggregate income of all households and top 1%, 1979–2010
  • 9. Pre-tax income of 20th–80th percentile of all households, by income source, 1979–2010
  • 10. Pre-tax income of 20th–80th percentile of all households excluding the elderly childless, by income source, 1979–2010
  • 11. Wages and hours worked of working-age households, by income group, selected years, 1979–2012 (2012 dollars)