Wages are lowest among essential workers, but racial and gender wage gaps persist across all occupational groups.

Median wages for three major occupational groups by race/gender and ethnicity

Source: PolicyLink/PERE analysis of data from the 2018 5-year American Community Survey Microdata from IPUMS USA and Burning Glass Technologies. Note: Universe includes employed civilian noninstitutional popuilation age 16 or older in occupations with valid data on weekly job openings between 3/2/2020 and 4/13/2020. Get the data