October 25, 2010 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Earnings by age and sex, third quarter of 2010
Women who usually worked full time had median weekly earnings of $662, or 81.4 percent of the $813 median for men, in the third quarter of 2010.
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Usual weekly earnings of full-time workers varied by age. Among men, those age 45 to 54 and age 55 to 64 had the highest median weekly earnings, $941 and $983, respectively.
Usual weekly earnings were highest for women from age 35 to 64; median weekly earnings were $729 for women age 35 to 44 and age 45 to 54, essentially the same as the $739 median for women age 55 to 64.
Median weekly earnings of the nation's 101.4 million full-time wage and salary workers were $740 in the third quarter of 2010, not seasonally adjusted. This was 0.3-percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 1.2 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period.
These data on earnings are from the Current Population Survey. To learn more, see "Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers: Third Quarter 2010" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-10-1450.
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