Study: Minorities in retail get paid less, promoted less
 

WASHINGTON (AP) ? African-American and Latino cashiers, salespeople and first-line managers are paid less, are less likely to be promoted off the floor and more likely to be poorer than their white counterparts in the retail industry, a new study showed Tuesday.

The study, done by the NAACP and Demos, a public policy organization, found that in the major jobs held by retail workers, African-Americans are paid the least, followed by Hispanics. They also are less likely to get full time jobs instead of part time and are underrepresented in management positions.

This could be a problem in the future for retail with the number of minorities in the United States steadily increasing, said Catherine Ruetschlin, a Demos senior policy analyst and co-author of the report.

"If workers from those racial and ethnic categories continue to be systematically excluded from opportunity, that means that our labor market will be serving less than half the population in a way that's really meaningful for families who want to pursue the American dream," Ruetschlin said.

There are 10 million non-Hispanic whites, 2.3 million Hispanic, 1.9 million African-American and 800,000 Asian workers in the retail industry.

More African-Americans work in retail than any other industry other than education and health services, according to researchers. But in retail, black and Hispanic workers are paid the least and given the fewest opportunities to advance, the study said.

Black cashiers average $9.17, while salespeople average $11.54 and first-line supervisors get $17.31. Those numbers are well below their white colleagues, who make $10.06 at the cash register, $15.32 in sales and $17.43 as supervisors.

Hispanics and Asians do better than blacks in most categories but worse than whites. Hispanic and Asian cashiers make $9.23 and $10.58, as well as $11.71 and $13.73 as salespeople. Hispanics lag behind black supervisors in pay, making only $15.38 but Asian supervisors make $18.12.

Not surprisingly, that means that African-American retail workers are also closer or further beneath the poverty line than similar workers. Overall, 9 percent of the retail workforce lives below the official poverty line, the study showed. But 17 percent of the African-American retail workforce lives below the poverty line, compared to 7 percent of white and Asian retail workers and 13 percent of Latino workers.

In addition to getting paid less, and being more likely to live below the poverty line, black retail workers are also less likely to get promoted out of their lower-paying jobs into management and professional occupations in retail. While African-Americans and Hispanics make up 14 and 17 percent of cashiers and 12 and 15 percent of retail sales, they only make up 8 and 13 percent of first-line supervisors, the study showed.

Whites make up 59 percent of the cashiers, and 65 percent of retail sales. But when it comes to first-line supervisors, their numbers jump up to 71 percent. The numbers of Asians stay about the same across all three positions, either 6 percent for supervisors and cashiers or 5 percent for sales.

Several cities and states are considering raising their minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Many companies also are making changes in their pay and in the hours they offer employees as the economy gets better and workers can get better jobs, said Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, senior director of the NAACP Economic Department and executive director of the NAACP Financial Freedom Center. But with high African-American unemployment, that shift has yet to affect black communities as much yet.

"We find in our communities we don't have as nearly as tight of a labor market, so that means we can't vote with our feet by leaving these jobs," said Asante-Muhammad, who co-authored the report.

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Jesse J. Holland covers race, ethnicity and demographics for The Associated Press. Contact him on Twitter at Jesse J. Holland (@jessejholland) | Twitter

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NAACP/Demos report: http://action.naacp.org/page/-/econo...ide_Rename.pdf

Study: Minorities in retail get paid less, promoted less - Yahoo News

More affirmative action!
It just can't be that certain races are less work ethic oriented, no no, they are being held down.

held down? you mean cheated! in television and movies as well

The answer to everything is racism.

you are one crafty stalker :helpme do you do anything else here???

Where do I bitch about the NBA/NFL?

You mean anything other than fuck with you for being a 24/7 race baiting, unemployable idiot ?

You see, I'm highly intelligent and you aren't. My income is 95% automated and I make good money. You.... have to furiously copy and paste news stories so you don't lose your digital welfare in the form of sig views that you sell.

People still buy sigs?

There is at least 3 people with the exact same one he has... so apparently so. Thats why he's posting nonsense all day, everyday, like its a full time job and his next meal depends on it.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Ya black actors are really being cheated. Will Smith can pop out a turd like After Earth and still collect 30 million. Hell, he earned 100 million off one of the men in black movies alone because he did a profit sharing deal.

god he wrote part of that. he's not the whole black community :1orglaugh george clooney just dropped as goose egg.

Let the market decide. If certain "minorities" feel discriminated, then organize and boycott the business. Affirmative action and "priority hires" do not belong in a free market. Let the best be hired in the private sector, who the fuck is the Gov't, who can't balance a budget, to tell anyone who to hire. If a store wants only Blacks, fine. Only Latinos who speak Spanish because that's the target audience, cool.

Oh, I'll leave off with this little nugget of inspiration from "priority hires" - a NYC firefighter who doesn't want to fight fires. Way to go "Tragic" Johnson!

Firefighters fear colleague who routinely flees fires | New York Post

3 of the top 10 grossing male actors of all time are black. Eddie Murphy, Sam Jackson, Morgan Freeman. You think these guys are being held down? Not given enough roles? Not being cast in popular movies? Obviously that is not the case.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh Again you are being a fool! turn on a few cbs or fox in primetime. watch some of the current movies

http://www.blackenterprise.com/lifestyle/7-highest-paid-african-american-tv-actors/

The only fool here is you. Post some more smilies and I'll post more facts proving you wrong.

White Power :thumbsup

how does you posting a few actors make the market fair??? :helpme:helpme:helpme

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh we'll see in about 10 years

Gee, I wonder why.

How does you saying the acting market isn't fair make it so? I just posted evidence of black actors earning big bucks and starring in dozens of different TV shows and others that have starred in hundreds of movies. And not just half-assed money. Literally 30% of the 10 highest grossing actors of all time are black. That doesn't even match the percentage of blacks in the us. Should I start whining about that?

Aren't most of the poorest areas mostly black/hispanic? Which would therefore mean going on area and wage, white, black, and hispanics actually get paid the same, with the same chance of promotion? When you compare numbers with places that aren't a ghetto shithole*, and therefore wages are higher, you get this skew that you can take out of context.

Because the poorer areas will pay less of a wage, and blacks/hispanics make up far more of that population, I'd take this 'report' with a huge pinch of salt.

*Whole other discussion about why ghetto shitholes are populated by mostly blacks, that isn't just a throwaway comment - so mineistaken don't cream your pants thinking I've just joined your gang.

ps brassmonkey you're a tool trying to use this to say black actors are being 'held down', wtf have some respect for yourself

The life of never ending whining. Move back to Africa and enjoy your 100% black actor blockbusters.
Blacks compose 14% of our population yet somehow they expect to have some sort of equilibrium in everything. Funny how we never hear same bullshit from successful minorities like Asians.

oh look a white didnu with dindu arguments :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

did asians have to be escorted to school by the military 50 years ago like the black population did? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

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white US dindus dindu nuffin
din du din du
white US dindus can do nuffin
o da do da day

gonna dindu all night
gonna dindu all day

whiteys can do nuffin
oh da do da day :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Oh look a douchbag from some shit hole in Europe thinking we care what he says.

holy fuck, BM is showing his ignorance and retarded racist way of thinking to the max in this thread... reading his warped ignorance makes me cringe

it's pathetic you actually think this is true in your feeble racist mind...

If a trip to Walmart is any indication, it's because of their attitudes and laziness.

Could it be because they are less qualified?

Never!!

A decade earlier over a hundred thousand Japanese americans were rounded up and put into camps. I don't see them complaining about a lack of Asian actors on TV today.

Maybe if they spent more time learning to do the job and less time steeling from the employers and getting high on drugs at work they would be worth more :2 cents:

nice try dindu...the war lasted 4 years and japs make only a fraction of your asian population...on the other hand blacks were kept as slaves for 100s of years...then they had to be escorted to school by the military in the democratic democratic free free free USA :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

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what a free and tolerant place the USA is :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh its dinduland :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Yes you little european cunt lip. Don't they teach you anything in basements of what you call schools. If you knew anything about segregation you'd know it wasn't about blacks only. You'd know about Chinese prohibition or Enterntainment capms. But you are too fucking stupid and ignorant just like the brassmonkeys around us. If you look at todays college enrollment you will see that asian have the highest percentage and rate as number one prosperous race int he US. Could it be because they work, study and encourage success instead of bitching like your sorry ass kind does? Always has someone to blame for shitty world you live in. Now go fuck yourself bottom feeding cunt.

Minorities also make up retail force in the nations shittiest neighborhoods where compensation is lower. That's not too hard for a non minority that actually has a GED or better to figure out. Poorer people are generally more contemptuous of rules and schedules and have more excuses for their behaviors and less likely strive to improve themselves or their skills and as such, to get a raise or promoted as such.

We could use this same stupid logic to argue that the rap industry is discriminating against white lids for the simple fact that there are fewer white rappers. Or, we could be mature adults and accept that there can be a myriad of reasons for that pattern to emerge, namely that white kids don't wake up dreaming about mastering the worlds lowest form of art.

dindu, are you talking about the chineese exclusion act? so you forbade their immigration and you are comparing it with slavery in the USA and armies having to escort black people to school? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

ooooo dinduuuuuuu :1orglaugh:1orglaugh you sound desperate with your arguments?

its a shitty comparison yooooooooooo :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

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Us white dindus wash their hands
dindu dindu
Us white dindus din du nuffin
oh da do da day :1orglaugh

Always nice to see the boards local resident of The European Center For Modern Day Genocide chiming in about fairness and equality.

What song were you singing when over 5000 Innocent people were rounded up, stood up in front of an open pit and executed at Srebrenica?

Im comparing successful people and shit stains like you and your friend brassasswipe.

oh look its the local dindu from the American Center For Terrorism and Dropping Bombs chiming in :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I was singing this song:

American foreign policy killed over 6.000.000 civilians and soldiers according to the washington post
din du din du
American dindus out murder everybody
o da do da day
Gonna napalm all night, gonna bomb all day
US dindus din du nuffin
o da do da day

Its amusing to hear dindus have an opinion :1orglaugh


dindu, you tired to equate 100s of years of slavery to some "white didnu settlers do not want yellow settlers act" and paint a picture where the black man had equal opportunity to the yellow man in the united states of dindu...

you are desperate to ignore the truth, and I understand you...being a dindu requires faith and people of faith need to believe regardless of how much facts you put on the table...

US dindu logic: we kept them as slaves for 100s of years, 50 years ago they needed military escort to school, because police escort was obviously not good enough ( :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh ) but we expect them to catch up in just 2 generations

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