US black-white inequality in 6 stark chartsīut median earnings for full-time workers don’t necessarily account for whether they are otherwise on a level playing field in terms of education, experience and geographic location. “For Black women, they find themselves sitting at the intersection of gender and racial discrimination, and when those things are combined you’ll see a bigger discrepancy in things like pay,” said Shannon Williams, the director of the Equal Pay Today Campaign.įor comparison, Equal Pay Day for women overall was March 31st this year. It based its estimate on the median annual earnings for full-time, year-round workers using data from the Census Bureau.Īs a result, the National Women’s Law Center estimates Black women lose out on roughly $1 million of income over a career.
That’s according to the Equal Pay Today Campaign, an umbrella group of organizations advocating for pay equity. The upshot: Black women had to work an additional seven and a half months this year on top of the 12 months they worked last year just to make as much as their White, non-Hispanic male counterparts did in 2019. It’s a measure of just how underpaid they are relative to White men. August 13th is Equal Pay Day for Black women this year.
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