July 23, 1999 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Men's earnings at peak at age 45-54
Men between the ages of 45 and 54
years had the highest earnings of any age group in the last quarter, but not by a large
margin.
![Median usual weekly earnings of full-time male workers, by age, second quarter 1999 averages](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925062722im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/1999/Jul/wk3/art05.gif)
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The usual median weekly earnings of 45-to 54-year-old men
were $757 in the three-month period from April to June 1999. This was just $42 above the
median for the next highest group, 55-to 64-year-old men, and $51 above the third-highest
group, 35-to 44-year olds. Therefore, the highest earnings level was less than 7 percent
above the third-highest.
The overall median weekly earnings for men were $617. The youngest men, ages 16 to 24,
earned the least per week ($344). In the top age group, 65 and over, median weekly
earnings were $421.
Data on weekly earnings are from the Current Population
Survey. Earnings figures are for full-time wage and salary workers. Find more
information on earnings in "Usual Weekly
Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers: Second Quarter 1999," news release USDL
99-197.
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