Asian men lead hourly earnings race in America

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MEN in the United States earn more than women. Whites earn more than blacks. But guess who comes out ahead when median hourly earnings are broken down by sex, race and ethnicity? Asian men.

The Pew Research Center's review of Current Population Survey data found that, when looking at full or part-time workers ages 16 and up, median hourly earnings for Asian males were US$24 last year, compared with US$21 for white men.

Median hourly earnings for Asian women were US$18, compared with US$17 for white women. And in a slight twist on the whole notion of the gender wage gap, white and Asian women outpaced black and Hispanic men, whose median hourly earnings in 2015 were US$15 and US$14, respectively. Educational attainment, of course, plays a role: Those with a four-year college degree earn mo…