Systematic pay and promotion disparities negatively affecting Black African American workers are the product of both cultural structural barriers and individual anomalies. Federal statistical data demonstrates that Black or African American workers are less likely to be employed in the highest paying occupational groups (management, professional, and related occupations) and more likely to be concentrated in the lower paying occupations and service industries, which depresses their lifetime earnings and promotion trajectories. This is true for both men and women.
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According to US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 36 percent of Black or African Americans employees were employed in the highest paying major occupational categories, i.e., management, professional, and related occupations with 44 percent of White, and 59 percent of Asian workers, and more recent government data published by the U.S. Department of Labor demonstrates the same disparities in trajectories based on race demographics for both Black or African American men and women. See NJ Employment Attorney, Black Female Employees and Discrimination at Work. Women and men’s earnings ratio as of April 2025 according to race/ethnic and occupation groups are as follows:
MANAGEMENT, BUSINESS, AND FINANCIAL OCCUPATIONS - ANNUAL EARNINGS
Black African American - women $75, 263; men $84, 371
Hispanic - Women $ 66,322; Men $80,025
White - Women $81,043; Men $101,490
Asian - Women $96, 991; men $117, 736
PROFESSIONALS AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS - ANNUAL EARNINGS
Black African American - women $61,839; men $77, 745
Hispanic - Women $60,591; men $80,190
White - Women $70,452; men $100,112
Asian - Women $93, 037; men 107, 835
SERVICE INDUSTRY OCCUPATIONS - ANNUAL EARNINGS
Black African American - women $35,168; men $40,481
Hispanic - Women $31, 882; men $40, 316
White - Women $37,305; men $53,193
Asian - Women $37, 286; men $45, 474
SALES AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS - ANNUAL EARNINGS
Black African American - women $46,251; men $52,650
Hispanic - Women $41,228; men $53, 647
White - Women $51,114; men $81, 145
Asian - Women $51, 776; mem $60, 641
PERSISTENT DISCRIMINATION ACROSS BROAD CULTURAL SPECTRUMS, AND UNEQUAL BARGAINING POWER AND DISCRIMINATION IN INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYMENT SETTINGS
Examining the racial disparities in U.S. labor market in statical data collected by the U.S. government, requires an acknowledgment of persistent discrimination across broad cultural spectrums, and unequal bargaining power and discrimination in individual employment settings. NJ Employers may sometimes violate New Jersey law by discriminating in their payment of wages based on the person’s race, sex or other protected class, in which case the employer would be violating the Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act. See Unequal Pay and Wage Claims - Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act.
EDUCATION OR SKILLS DIFFERENTIALS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN AND BLACK WAGE DIFFERENTIALS ACCORDING TO U.S. GOVERNMENT DATA.
Significant racial disparities in wages are observed at each level of education, among both men and women, and across similarly situated workers of the same age, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. New Jersey Ethnic Discrimination Lawyer. This is the strongest evidence against conventional wisdom and mainstream views that education or skills differentials are responsible for the African American and Black wage differentials Black or African American workers continued to have considerably lower earnings than those who are White or Asian. The earnings disparity across the major race and ethnicity groups for women and men holds for most of the major occupational groups. See New Jersey Race Discrimination Lawyer.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
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