FACT SHEET - Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Women Earn Less than White Men in All but One State

FACT SHEET IWPR #C523April 2024 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Women Earn Less than White Men in All but One State Wage Gaps and Earnings by State for All Workers and Full-Time Year-Round Workers Research Highlights • In 2022, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) women were paid just 92.7 cents per dollar earned by White men in spite of much higher. [...] Introduction In 2022, the median annual earnings of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) women for a year of full-time work were 92.7 percent of White1 men’s and just 80.1 percent when considering part-time and part-year workers as well.2 This is despite the fact that Asian American women were 1.4 times as likely to hold at least a bachelors’ degree than White men (57.1 a. [...] V14.0 AANHPI Women Working Full-Time Year-Round Were Paid Less than White Men in All but One State Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) women working full-time year-round were paid less than White men in all but one of the 45 states for which data are available and the District of Columbia for full-time year-round workers (Table 2 and Map 2): • Alaska was the state with t. [...] Likewise, in every one of the 49 states with sufficient data and in the District of Columbia, the majority of AANHPI women worked full-time year-round, ranging from 50.3 percent of women with earnings in Vermont to 73.9 percent in the District of Columbia (Table 3). [...] 12 In 2023, 40.3 percent of Asian American full-time weekly workers were in professional and related occupations and 24.2 percent in management, business, and financial operations occupations; the shares of White men, respectively, were 23.8 and 22.1 percent.