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Black workers' wage gap has widened for hard-to-quantify reasons

Black workers earn less than their white counterparts in a worsening trend likely caused by harder-to-measure factors such as discrimination and school-quality differences.

By Jeanna Smialek, Jordyn Holman | Updated on September 06, 2017
Black workers earn less than their white counterparts in a worsening trend likely caused by harder-to-measure factors such as discrimination and school-quality differences.(Photo: Getty)

(Bloomberg) – Black workers earn less than their white counterparts in a worsening trend that holds even after accounting for differences in age, education, job type and geography, new Federal Reserve research shows.

In 1979, the average black man in America earned 80 percent as much per hour as the average white man. By 2016, that shortfall had worsened to 70 percent, according to research Tuesday from the San Francisco Fed, which found the divide had also widened for black women.

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