What is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day?

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day marks how far into the year a Black woman must work to earn what a white, non-Hispanic man earned in the previous year.

In 2025, this date falls later in the year, symbolizing a stark and persistent wage gap. On average, Black women in the U.S. are paid only 66 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men (National Women's Law Center, 2024). This gap is wider for mothers, LGBTQ+ women, and those in low-wage or care work sectors.

How Black Women Can Celebrate and Activate on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day:

Here are empowering ways to reclaim the day and turn it into a moment of strategy, community, and forward motion:

1. Download & Share the State of Jobs for Black Women 2025 Report

Use the data to inform your network, amplify your voice, and challenge outdated narratives about our worth and work. This report is a tool for advocacy, education, and career planning.

2. Tell Your Story

Share your experience with the wage gap, layoff economy, or career transitions. Use hashtags like #BlackWomensEqualPayDay and #StateOfJobs2025. Our stories are data, especially in the age of AI.

3. Audit & Advocate for Your Pay

Take time today to:

• Review your compensation package

• Use tools like Payscale, Hired, or ask peers in your network

• Normalize having regular salary convos with the girlies in the group chat

• Book a negotiation session or join a salary transparency convo with a qualified career coach

4. Support Black Women-Led Research + Innovation

Forward the Bloom Futures Report to your HR team, ERG group, or career center. Sponsor a workshop, keynote, or student training that centers Black women’s career development.

5. Invest in Your Legacy Brand

Use today to reflect on your personal brand, legacy, and career story.

💅🏾 Black Women’s Equal Pay Day isn’t just about closing the gap it’s about building systems where Black women rise with strategy, sovereignty, and support.

Today, on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, we’re not just acknowledging the gap. We’re building the data, tools, and frameworks to close it for good.

That’s why I created Bloom Futures Lab: a research and insight lab born from lived experience, cultural intelligence, and an unshakable belief that Black women deserve to not just survive the workforce, but to design careers rooted in sovereignty, strategy, and self-definition.

We’re kicking off this new chapter by releasing the State of Jobs for Black Women 2025 Report, a first-of-its-kind, mixed-methods insight study exploring what’s actually happening in the workforce right now. This isn’t just data. It’s a declaration of value, visibility, and visionary leadership.

Let’s bloom beyond the gap. Let’s build what doesn’t yet exist.

Bloom Futures Lab is the research and intelligence arm of Bloomology, focused on the future of work, personal brand innovation, culturally conscious storytelling, and workforce design for the 21st century.

We publish insight reports, intelligence briefings, and proprietary frameworks that decode what it means to build legacy, visibility, and power in an AI-powered world.

From personal branding to portfolio careers, from interview intelligence to digital identity, we translate overlooked data into strategic foresight.

We help coaches, universities, DEI teams, and visionary institutions lead with legacy.

Early this week, we dropped our first product The 2025 Mid-Year Jobs Report, a career intelligence tool for new grads and early career professonals

And today, we released our State Of The Layoff Economy report exclusively for Black Women.

Because you’re a Bloom Insider, you get it first. We haven’t shared on socials yet.

After You Download the Report… Here's What We Invite You to Do Next:

✅ Book a Legacy Debrief Session
Let us walk you, your ERG, or your leadership team through the key insights and strategize how to turn the data into action.

✅ Sponsor or Host a Back-to-School Career Workshop or Keynote
Bring the Interview Like An Olympian™ framework to your campus, organization, or community. We’re currently booking for Fall 2025.

✅ Partner With Bloom Futures
Co-create with us. License the research. Fund the next round of data. Help us to expand this work into the hands of those who need it most.

✅ Share the Report Widely
Send it to a career center. A student affairs leader. A journalist. A founder. A fellow Black woman. When we control the narrative, we control the outcomes.