A more comprehensive look at employment: Employment-to-population ratios for select workers by race/ethnicity and gender, February 2020, April 2020, July 2022, and August 2022

characteristic February 2020 April 2020 July 2022 August 2022
White men 69.70% 60.50% 67.70% 67.7%
White women 56.60% 47.10% 55.80% 55.8%
Black men 63.80% 53.20% 63.50% 62.8%
Black women 60.80% 49.60% 59.00% 58.4%
Latinx men 78.40% 64.30% 75.80% 76.2%
Latinx women 59.10% 45.20% 57.70% 58.3%

Notes: Data are for workers ages 20 and older. Racial and ethnic categories are not mutually exclusive; white and Black data do not exclude Latinx workers of each race. Employment to population levels are labeled for February, April, and the trough in between.

Source: EPI analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Household Data Table A-2, and Table A-3.

View the underlying data on epi.org.