September 14, 2011 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Earnings and employment by occupation, race, ethnicity, and sex, 2010
Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by occupation, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 2010
| Occupation |
Asian |
White |
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity |
Black or African American |
| Men |
Women |
Men |
Women |
Men |
Women |
Men |
Women |
Management, professional, and related occupations |
$1,408 |
$1,143 |
$1,273 |
$932 |
$1,002 |
$789 |
$957 |
$812 |
Sales and office occupations |
715 |
643 |
761 |
600 |
589 |
532 |
596 |
577 |
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations |
733 |
406 |
730 |
537 |
538 |
362 |
707 |
616 |
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations |
596 |
479 |
661 |
473 |
510 |
385 |
576 |
469 |
Service occupations |
555 |
473 |
559 |
423 |
437 |
387 |
498 |
420 |
These data are featured in the TED article, Earnings and employment by occupation, race, ethnicity, and sex, 2010.
Employed people by occupation, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 2010 (percent distribution)
| Occupation |
Asian |
White |
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity |
Black or African American |
| Men |
Women |
Men |
Women |
Men |
Women |
Men |
Women |
Total |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
Management, professional, and related occupations |
47.7 |
46.1 |
34.8 |
41.5 |
15.3 |
24.1 |
23.5 |
33.8 |
Sales and office occupations |
17.6 |
25.2 |
16.7 |
32.6 |
14.1 |
31.7 |
18.3 |
30.7 |
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations |
6.7 |
0.6 |
18.1 |
1.0 |
26.5 |
1.7 |
11.9 |
0.7 |
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations |
12.9 |
6.7 |
16.8 |
4.9 |
22.4 |
9.3 |
25.1 |
6.5 |
Service occupations |
15.1 |
21.3 |
13.6 |
20.1 |
21.8 |
33.2 |
21.2 |
28.3 |
These data are featured in the TED article, Earnings and employment by occupation, race, ethnicity, and sex, 2010.
Of interest
Spotlight on Statistics: National Hispanic Heritage Month
In this Spotlight, we take a look at the Hispanic labor force—including labor force participation, employment and unemployment, educational attainment, geographic location, country of birth, earnings, consumer expenditures, time use, workplace injuries, and employment projections.
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