A new study co-authored at UC Berkeley revealed that when considering people without college degrees, Black people are paid less than every other racial group.

“Inequality among the Disadvantaged? Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Earnings among Young Men and Women without a College Education” was released Dec. 21 in the journal Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and published by the American Sociological Association. Byeongdon Oh, a postdoctoral researcher who led the study, said in a statement,  “Earnings are an important factor to study because they’re related to other outcomes, like health, engagement with the criminal justice system and family development. So we focus on the non-college population at an early age. They are already disadvantaged economically — they have very low earnings. If there’s a sizable racial or ethnic earnings disparity in this population, there may be severe consequences.”

Here are some of the key findings, according to UC Berkeley:

• Young Asian American men with no college education earned an average of $24,837 in 2016, followed by white men at $22,056 and Latinos at $17,984. Young Black men averaged just $12,573 — barely half the wages earned by Asian Americans and whites.
• A similar, but less severe, disparity was evident among young women with no college experience. White women on average earned $14,766, followed by Latinas at $12,465, Asian American women at $10,935 and Black women at $10,871.
• The gap between these women and men was vast, with young Black women on average earning only 44 cents for every dollar earned by Asian American men with similar levels of education.

Oh said the findings could indicate how women and Black men experience bias from employers. The study read: “The results may indicate that employers devalue the work of young Black men without a college education to a greater degree than they do the work of white, Latinx, and Asian men without a college education.”

These recent findings confirm data from previous studies. In 2016, the Economic Policy Institute reported African-Americans earn even less money than they did in 1979 in comparison to their white counterparts. Researchers from the think tank looked at wages between Black and white full-time workers who lived in the same areas with equivalent education and work history and found that just last year, Black men earned 22 percent less than white men. However, in 1979, they only earned 16.9 percent less. Black women earned 11.7 percent less than their white female peers in 2015, but only 4.5 percent less in 1979. The report also noted that Black women made 34.2 percent less than white men, despite having similar career backgrounds and degrees.