October 20, 2005 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Education and earnings in 2004
Median weekly earnings in 2004 varied significantly by level of education.
![Usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers age 25 years and over by sex and educational attainment, 2004 annual averages](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925062738im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2005/oct/wk3/art04.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
Among women, those with less than a high school diploma earned $334 per week, compared with $860 for those with a college degree. Among men, high school dropouts earned $446 a week, compared with $1,143 for college graduates.
These data on earnings are produced by the Current Population
Survey. Earnings data in this article are median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers. For more information see
"Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2004," BLS Report 987 (PDF 196K).
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