Nonunion workers had weekly earnings 81 percent of union members in 2019

Among full-time wage and salary workers, union members had median usual weekly earnings of $1,095 in 2019, while those who were not union members had median weekly earnings of $892.

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Chart Data Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by union affiliation and other characteristics, 2019 annual averages Characteristic Members of unions Nonunion Total $1,095 $892 Total men 1,147 986 Total women 1,018 792 White 1,127 917 White Men 1,181 1,012 White women 1,044 810 Black or African American 905 711 Black or African American men 948 746 Black or African American women 874 683 Asian 1,173 1,179 Asian men 1,151 1,357 Asian women 1,216 995 Hispanic or Latino ethnicity 954 686 Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, men 1,009 722 Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, women 875 622

In 2019, white union members had median usual weekly earnings of $1,127, compared to $917 for white nonunion workers. Black or African American union members had median usual weekly earnings of $905, compared to $711 for black nonunion workers. Asian union members had median usual weekly earnings of $1,173, about the same as the figure of $1,179 for Asian nonunion workers.

Union members of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity had median usual weekly earnings of $954, compared to $686 for nonunion workers of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.

These data are from the Current Population Survey. The comparisons of earnings are on a broad level and do not control for many factors that can be important in explaining earnings differences, including variations in the distributions of union members and nonunion employees by occupation, industry, age, firm size, or geographic region. To learn more, see “Union Members — 2019.” Union membership data do not include self-employed workers.