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53 cents for “all earners” (full-time, year-round + part-time and part-year)
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60 cents for full-time, year-round workers
Latinas are paid, on average, 53 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 60 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 persistent discriminatory barriers Latinas continue to face.
Latinas are overrepresented in essential yet undervalued lower-wage industries that typically lack benefits and are often subject to fewer workplace protections. These conditions, in industries like farmwork and domestic work, drive greater economic insecurity and make workers more vulnerable to workplace violations like sexual harassment and wage theft.
These drivers of the wage gap are exacerbated by the federal administration’s inhumane and aggressive attacks on immigrant communities. This includes ongoing workplace raids; mass arrests, detention, and deportations; efforts to limit access to legal representation; denial and revocation of work authorization, and implementation of measures to scare immigrant families out of accessing public benefits for which they are eligible. Collectively, these actions have created a terrorizing environment of intimidation that is forcing immigrant workers to go into hiding, exit the workforce, and refrain from reporting workplace violations, all of which drive deep economic insecurity.
This Latina Equal Pay Day we are uniting to address these glaring injustices impacting Latina workers and recognizing that in the face of the persistent wage gap and ongoing federal assaults, Latina workers have agency and power to change these dynamics.
Our calls to action include concrete steps to increase financial literacy and wealth-building, oppose federal attacks to alter the Census to further disempower Latinas and their communities, advocate to enact the Paycheck Fairness Act to advance fair pay, and encourage Latinas to show up at the polls to demand that their interests are represented.
Thank you for joining us as we fight for the economic security and safety of our communities.
