Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers News Release - 2025 Q05 Results — 2026-01-28

Median weekly earnings of the nation's 121.5 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,204 in 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. --Median weekly earnings of full-time workers were $1,204 in 2025. Women had median weekly earnings of $1,089, or 82.1 percent of the $1,326 median for men. (See table 7.) --The women's-to-men's earnings ratio varied by race and ethnicity. White women earned $1,108, or 81.8 percent as much as their male counterparts, compared with 90.7 percent for Black women ($942), 78.4 percent for Asian women ($1,395), and 88.6 percent for Hispanic women ($889). (See table 7.) --Among the major race and ethnicity groups, median earnings of people who are Hispanic ($951) or Black ($986) were lower than those who are White ($1,231) or Asian ($1,566). By sex, median weekly earnings for Black men were $1,039, or 76.7 percent of the median for White men ($1,354).