July 25, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Weekly earnings of full-time workers in second quarter
Median weekly
earnings of the nation's 100.2 million full-time wage and salary workers
were $566 in the second quarter of 2000. This was 4.2 percent higher than
a year earlier, compared with a gain of 3.3 percent in the Consumer Price
Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period.
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Women who usually worked full time had median earnings of $485 per
week, or 75.8 percent of the $640 median for men. The female-to-male
earnings ratios were higher among Hispanics (85.3 percent) and blacks
(80.9 percent) than among whites (74.8 percent).
Data on weekly earnings are from the Current
Population Survey. Find more
information on earnings in "Usual
Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers: Second Quarter 2000,"
news release USDL 00-203.
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