You might wanna check the article again, its going by Median, not Mean.

“Asian-American women earned 78% of the median annual pay of white men”

“white women earned 73% [of the median annual pay of white men]”

So, Asian-American women, according to that study, on average, OUT-EARN WHITE WOMEN by approximately 7%.

(I’d also like to apologize for bringing down the average. I do have a professional degree, but the media industry doesn’t pay all that much.)

The numbers provided are averages for salaries across all professions, and it’s undeniable that most CEOs, executives, are mostly white males, while engineers, doctors, lawyers, etc. are made up of mostly white/Asian males–professions which make the most money and skew the averages toward their favor.

If you compare two people of different races/genders doing the same job, with the same education/experiences, there will be a miniscule difference in their earnings. It doesn’t matter if you’re a teacher, janitor, or lawyer, your wages will not be determined by who you are.

You can of course make the argument that a white male lawyer may have a better chance of being promoted than a female Asian lawyer and thus end up in a higher income bracket or something along those lines, but it’s be silly to think that w/ two people doing the same job that one will get paid more than the other because of who they are–which is what these statistics are trying to present themselves.

If anything, corporations are going to do their best to make sure that there’s equal pay between different races/genders to avoid even the possibility of a suggestion that there’s discrimination involved in hopes of bringing a lawsuit aboard.

It would be a story if you were to compare any two doctors, park rangers, or investment bankers with similar roles/hierarchies of different races and found a discrepancy–however this is certainly not the case here in 2008.

54% of asian american males over 25 have bachelors degrees and 24% have a higher degree.

For white males, these numbers are 30% and 11% respectively.

This means that despite having a population which has more than twice the % of advanced degrees and almost double the % of college degrees, asian american males somehow make 1% less than their white male counterparts.

As far as women, so long as they are the baby-bearers, their median wages will always be lower. They have to take time off during late pregnancy and early childhood. Some jobs require these women to be present in order for them to receive pay.