Fact Tank - Our Lives in Numbers July 1, 2016 Racial, gender wage gaps persist in U.S. despite some progress

Racial, gender wage gaps persist in U.S. despite some progress

Large racial and gender wage gaps in the U.S. remain, even as they have narrowed in some cases over the years. Among full- and part-time workers in the U.S., blacks in 2015 earned just 75% as much as whites in median hourly earnings and women earned 83% as much as men.