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Life is better in a union! Union workers earn more than non-union workers on average*

Try our wage comparison tool to estimate how your union membership status impacts your bottom line

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* Wage data based on Bureau of Labor Statistics report. This data is not broken out beyond general racial categories. It does not include nonbinary gender identities.

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* Wage data based on Bureau of Labor Statistics report. This data is not broken out beyond general racial categories. It does not include nonbinary gender identities.

Are you a union member?

* Wage data based on Bureau of Labor Statistics report. This data is not broken out beyond general racial categories. It does not include nonbinary gender identities.

How do you identify?

* Wage data based on Bureau of Labor Statistics report. This data is not broken out beyond general racial categories. It does not include nonbinary gender identities.

What’s your gender?

* Wage data based on Bureau of Labor Statistics report. This data is not broken out beyond general racial categories. It does not include nonbinary gender identities.

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You earn than , , workers (on average).

Results skewed for Asian groups. Wage data based on Bureau of Labor Statistics report and is not broken out beyond general racial categories.

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Wage data based on Bureau of Labor Statistics report. This data is not broken out beyond general racial categories. It does not include nonbinary gender identities.

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