Among those full-time, year-round workers with professional degrees, white men make 104 percent more than Hispanic women over their working lifetimes.
Among full-time, year-round workers, white men with professional degrees make nearly 49 percent more in lifetime earnings than white women with a comparable education level.
Though she's become one of the bigger local employers, with 40 year-round workers and 50 in the summer, her hiring practices are not conventional.
The swift gift-delivering requires armies of seasonal employees and year-round workers, like in-house meteorologists who provide forecasts for more than 200 locations worldwide.
But the party still does not report the salaries and names of its year-round workers, instead listing lump-sum payments to payroll-processing companies.
And it is impossible in America for two full-time, year-round workers to earn less than $15,000 between them, unless they are (illegally) paid less than the minimum wage.But there is more to it than this.
"If things don't improve, I shudder to think what will happen to us next year," said Mr. Chaliha, who employs 350 year-round workers and an extra 350 during the picking season in northeastern India, from March to December.
Moonstruck employed 52 people when the Banys bought it in October 2001 and now has 90 year-round workers; the number rises to about 150 at peak times -- around Valentine's Day, Easter and Christmas, for example.
Nowadays, the town of East Haddam has revitalization plans for the village, and the Goodspeed, the employer of 75 year-round workers, is the largest owner of housing there.
A motley group of workers was assembled around makeshift sorting tables — a family friend whose home-schooled son was taking exams nearby; a pretty French student living on the farm for the semester who was flirting with an itinerant farm intern (next stop: Hawaii); and two year-round workers, Carolina and Pedro Medina.
In contrast, using a relative poverty threshold of about one-half the median U.S. income, the poverty estimate for year-round workers increased to 11.7%.
