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The State of Working Pennsylvania 2004 21 WHITE Table 4. Median Hourly Wages in Pennsylvania by Race and Sex, 1979-2003 (2003 dollars) 1979 1989 1995 2000 2002 2003 by about 3 percent while white women’s wages rose by nearly 27 percent.) In contrast, comparing 2003 with each of these years before 2000, African American women received much greater percentage raises than their male counterparts. (From 1979-2003 black men’s wages fell by more than 11 percent while black women’s wages rose by just over 14 percent.) Racial wage differences have generally gotten larger over the long term for both men and women (Figure 13). In 1979 black men earned 86 cents per hour for every dollar earned by white men. This figure fell to 71 cents by 2002 and rose to 79 cents in 2003, still below its 1979 level. In 1979 black women earned 98 cents per hour for every dollar earned by white women. This figure was 95 cents in 2002 and 88 cents in 2003. The growing racial wage gaps are due to the fact that African Americans 1979- 2003 1989- 2003 of both sexes generally received smaller raises (or suffered larger wage cuts) than their white counterparts during most of the period from 1979-2003. Women With Some College Education Make Greatest Wage Gains Percent change During the 1980s and early 1990s Pennsylvania workers with more formal education generally received larger raises. Women with less than a high school diploma and, to some extent, men with less than a college degree actually suffered large wage cuts from 1979-2003 and 1989-2003 (Table 5 and Figure 14). For example, men with no high school diploma took wage cuts of nearly a third from 1979-2003, men with high school diplomas but no further schooling took cuts of about 14 percent, and women without high school diplomas took a 10 percent cut. At the same time, wages rose by more than a third for men and women with graduate degrees. But after 2000 this pattern changed. Men with some college but no bachelor’s degree (including those with associate degrees) saw their wages fall after 2000, as they had until 1995. But women in 1995- 2003 2000- 2003 2002- 2003 Men $16.44 $14.47 $14.38 $16.02 $15.92 $15.92 -3.1% 10.0% 10.7% -0.6% 0.0% Women 9.86 10.17 10.79 11.35 12.27 12.50 26.8 22.9 15.9 10.1 1.8 BLACK Men 14.09 12.28 11.99 11.75 11.25 12.50 -11.3 1.8 4.3 6.4 11.1 Women 9.63 10.09 9.83 10.68 11.64 11.00 14.3 9.1 11.9 3.0 -5.5 Source: KRC analysis of CPS data.
The State of Working Pennsylvania 2004 22 Table 5. Median Hourly Wages in Pennsylvania by Education Level, 1979-2003 (2003 dollars) Percent change 2002- 2003 2000- 2003 1995- 2003 1989- 2003 1979- 2003 1979 1989 1995 2000 2002 2003 MEN No HS Diploma $14.56 $12.18 $10.67 $9.61 $10.23 $9.95 -31.6% -18.3% -6.7% 3.5% -2.7% HS Diploma 15.73 13.32 13.19 13.35 13.55 13.50 -14.2 1.3 2.4 1.1 -0.4 Some College 15.50 14.33 14.38 14.57 14.32 13.85 -10.6 -3.3 -3.7 -4.9 -3.3 College Graduate 19.61 19.70 20.17 22.59 22.42 22.60 15.3 14.7 12.0 0.0 0.8 Postgraduate 21.62 24.25 26.85 28.24 31.15 28.85 33.4 18.9 7.4 2.2 -7.4 WOMEN No HS Diploma 8.34 7.88 7.49 7.48 7.67 7.50 -10.0 -4.8 0.1 0.3 -2.2 HS Diploma 9.39 9.31 9.53 10.07 10.23 10.38 10.5 11.5 8.9 3.0 1.5 Some College 10.07 10.74 10.34 11.11 11.44 12.00 19.1 11.7 16.0 8.0 4.9 College Graduate 13.22 14.33 15.77 17.46 17.18 17.30 30.9 20.8 9.7 -0.9 0.7 Postgraduate 15.90 18.62 22.03 21.62 22.46 21.63 36.1 16.1 -1.8 0.0 -3.7 Source: KRC analysis of CPS data.
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