Hispanic Male Workers Earning Fraction of What White Counterparts Paid Pew Research Study Finds

Hispanic men earned just 67 percent of what their white counterparts earned on average in 2015 a new Pew Research Center analysis of Bureau of Labor of Statistics study finds.

Average hourly wages for Hispanic men stood at $14 per hour last year, compared to $21 for white men. On average, the earnings of black men also fell far below the median average for white males at just $15 per hour

Hispanic Males Have Made Little Wage gap Progress in Over 30 Years

Researchers found black and Hispanic men have made no significant progress in terms of narrowing the wage gap with white men over the last three plus decades. Back in 1980, black males earned 73 percent of white counterparts did, while Hispanic males lagged even further behind at 69 percent.

While some have insisted the persistent wage gap can be attributed to fewer Latinos and blacks being educated on the same levels as whites, researchers found that similarly educated minority males still fared less well off than their white colleagues.

On average, college educated black and Hispanic males earn roughly 80 percent of the hourly wage earned by white males ($25 and $26 per hour compared to $32).

Data shows that landscape is even more treacherous for women in general and minority females in particular.

Minority Women Also Lagging far Behind

Researchers also found the earnings for women across all races and ethnicities were significantly lower than that of white males, with the average wages of black and Hispanic females standing at just $13 and $12 per hour, respectively.

When it comes to black and Hispanic women with a college degree, their earnings top out at roughly 70 percent ($22 and $23 an hour) of the hourly wages of their white male colleagues.

Overall, a new Pew Research Center report finds that a combined 51 percent of all black (64 percent) and Hispanics (38 percent) now say they are treated less fairly than whites in the workplace. In addition, roughly 19 percent of both minority groups share in the past year they have been treated unfairly in hiring, pay or promotion because of their race or ethnicity.