*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: The Median Wage for Black Workers: Why Isn't It Rising? Author: Dean Baker

*Source: *The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

*Date:* April 16, 2018

*Summary:* The latest data on median wages for black workers is somewhat surprising. The Bureau of Labor Statistics Usual Weekly Earnings series https://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpswktab5.htm showed real median weekly earnings for full-time black workers in the first quarter of 2018 were up just 0.6 percent from the first quarter of 2017. Furthermore, taking the last three years together, it showed real weekly earnings for blacks were up by a meager 1.1, trailing the 2.8 percent rise in real earnings for the median white worker. The racial gap seems to be increasing even in this period of relatively low unemployment.

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