Check out: http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/p02.html for tables on median income by race and gender for all persons and http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/p03.html for mean income.
Note that the above tables are for ALL workers, part-time, part-year, etc. For full-time, full-year figures by gender, you went to: http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/p29.html For full time, full year by race, go to tables 29A and 29B on the same webpage.
Just for the record, median wages for women in 1997 were $9.63 and for men $14.39.
Cheers, Heather
Marta Russell wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > The per capita figures include kids; the numbers for men and women are for
> > those 15 and over, and only include those with income >0. If I'm
> > remembering right, back in the old days, only about half of women had
> > income >0; now it's about 90% or so.
> >
> > Doug
>
> Thanks for such a quick answer!! Oh, so one more dumb question. Where would
> you get earnings figures for black, white, hispanic working age adults (15
> and over) then?
> --
> Marta Russell
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