African-American Women’s Equal Pay Day annually highlights the discrepancy in pay between white men and black women. The date, Aug. 23, acknowledges how far into 2016 black women have to work to make pay equal to what white men made in 2015. To draw attention to this divide, #BlackWomensEqualPay trended on Twitter throughout the day.  At the median, white men with a college degree make $29.36 per hour, or approximately 46 percent more than the $20.02 earned by the median college-educated African American women

Also on Aug. 23, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth published an interactive online database that compares compares how pay rates differ by gender, race, and education level: go here. This is an easy to compare across gender and race when looking at pay differences.