_Highlights of Women's Earnings in 1998_ presents earnings data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) -- a national monthly survey of approximately 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to this report, the female-to-male earnings ratio for 1998 is 76 percent, up 13 percent from 1979 figures, and white women's earnings were 17 percent higher than black women's, and 38.9 percent higher than those for Hispanic women at $468, $400, and $337 respectively.