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54 cents for “all earners” (full-time, year-round + part-time and part-year)
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58 cents for full-time, year-round workers
Latinas are paid, on average, 54 cents to every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men. This number includes all Latinas with reported earnings, like part-time, seasonal, and migrant workers. For full-time, year-round workers, the wage gap is 58 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men. This means, on average, that Latina workers stand to lose about 1.2 million over the course of a 40-year career due to the wage gap. These disparities are a clear reflection of the economic hurdles Latinas continue to face.
Latinas are overrepresented in industries that make them vulnerable for economic insecurity. Industries such as farmwork and domestic work are known to underpay workers and often lack basic workplace protections. Moreover, the ongoing attacks on the immigrant community will only exacerbate the pay disparities for Latina workers. These industries, and others, like restaurant work have also been targets of immigration raids making it unsafe and risky for many to attend work. And for women who are immigrants, their citizenship status often makes them more vulnerable to wage theft and sexual harassment.
We will be uniting to address these glaring injustices impacting Latina workers and advocate to protect our communities. Our collective hashtags for the day will be #LatinaEqualPay and #Trabajadoras.
Thank you for joining us as we fight for the economic security and safety of our communities.
Latina Equal Pay Day Co-Leads
Justice for Migrant Women | Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) | Equal Pay Today | Equal Rights Advocates