The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
| Number Employed | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Racial/Ethnic Group and Sex | Total Employment | Officials & Managers | Professionals | Technicians | Sales Workers | Office & Clerical Workers | Craft Workers | Operatives | Laborers | Service Workers |
| ALL EMPLOYEES | 2,118,258 | 337,941 | 553,433 | 187,971 | 183,700 | 543,048 | 133,565 | 67,391 | 49,489 | 61,720 |
| Men | 1,156,181 | 207,815 | 332,839 | 149,258 | 88,796 | 149,973 | 115,759 | 48,582 | 27,564 | 35,595 |
| Women | 962,077 | 130,126 | 220,594 | 38,713 | 94,904 | 393,075 | 17,806 | 18,809 | 21,925 | 26,125 |
| WHITE | 1,486,584 | 273,934 | 415,387 | 134,128 | 140,174 | 325,230 | 97,530 | 40,456 | 25,440 | 34,305 |
| Men | 844,320 | 172,383 | 252,844 | 107,751 | 70,195 | 90,448 | 85,463 | 30,252 | 14,582 | 20,402 |
| Women | 642,264 | 101,551 | 162,543 | 26,377 | 69,979 | 234,782 | 12,067 | 10,204 | 10,858 | 13,903 |
| MINORITY | 631,674 | 64,007 | 138,046 | 53,843 | 43,526 | 217,818 | 36,035 | 26,935 | 24,049 | 27,415 |
| Men | 311,861 | 35,432 | 79,995 | 41,507 | 18,601 | 59,525 | 30,296 | 18,330 | 12,982 | 15,193 |
| Women | 319,813 | 28,575 | 58,051 | 12,336 | 24,925 | 158,293 | 5,739 | 8,605 | 11,067 | 12,222 |
| BLACK | 306,274 | 26,509 | 42,134 | 26,224 | 24,711 | 127,891 | 18,169 | 13,181 | 13,379 | 14,076 |
| Men | 129,287 | 12,138 | 19,845 | 19,551 | 9,243 | 29,743 | 14,637 | 9,102 | 7,522 | 7,506 |
| Women | 176,987 | 14,371 | 22,289 | 6,673 | 15,468 | 98,148 | 3,532 | 4,079 | 5,857 | 6,570 |
| HISPANIC | 180,708 | 17,840 | 27,350 | 16,249 | 13,125 | 65,953 | 13,390 | 9,652 | 7,484 | 9,665 |
| Men | 95,081 | 10,451 | 15,915 | 13,277 | 6,376 | 21,329 | 11,855 | 6,570 | 3,809 | 5,499 |
| Women | 85,627 | 7,389 | 11,435 | 2,972 | 6,749 | 44,624 | 1,535 | 3,082 | 3,675 | 4,166 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN | 133,429 | 18,382 | 66,354 | 10,320 | 4,762 | 20,238 | 3,657 | 3,710 | 2,794 | 3,212 |
| Men | 81,681 | 12,075 | 42,930 | 7,844 | 2,583 | 7,370 | 3,102 | 2,403 | 1,449 | 1,925 |
| Women | 51,748 | 6,307 | 23,424 | 2,476 | 2,179 | 12,868 | 555 | 1,307 | 1,345 | 1,287 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN | 11,263 | 1,276 | 2,208 | 1,050 | 928 | 3,736 | 819 | 392 | 392 | 462 |
| Men | 5,812 | 768 | 1,305 | 835 | 399 | 1,083 | 702 | 255 | 202 | 263 |
| Women | 5,451 | 508 | 903 | 215 | 529 | 2,653 | 117 | 137 | 190 | 199 |
| PARTICIPATION RATE | ||||||||||
| ALL EMPLOYEES | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Men | 54.6 | 61.5 | 60.1 | 79.4 | 48.3 | 27.6 | 86.7 | 72.1 | 55.7 | 57.7 |
| Women | 45.4 | 38.5 | 39.9 | 20.6 | 51.7 | 72.4 | 13.3 | 27.9 | 44.3 | 42.3 |
| WHITE | 70.2 | 81.1 | 75.1 | 71.4 | 76.3 | 59.9 | 73.0 | 60.0 | 51.4 | 55.6 |
| Men | 39.9 | 51.0 | 45.7 | 57.3 | 38.2 | 16.7 | 64.0 | 44.9 | 29.5 | 33.1 |
| Women | 30.3 | 30.0 | 29.4 | 14.0 | 38.1 | 43.2 | 9.0 | 15.1 | 21.9 | 22.5 |
| MINORITY | 29.8 | 18.9 | 24.9 | 28.6 | 23.7 | 40.1 | 27.0 | 40.0 | 48.6 | 44.4 |
| Men | 14.7 | 10.5 | 14.5 | 22.1 | 10.1 | 11.0 | 22.7 | 27.2 | 26.2 | 24.6 |
| Women | 15.1 | 8.5 | 10.5 | 6.6 | 13.6 | 29.1 | 4.3 | 12.8 | 22.4 | 19.8 |
| BLACK | 14.5 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 14.0 | 13.5 | 23.6 | 13.6 | 19.6 | 27.0 | 22.8 |
| Men | 6.1 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 10.4 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 11.0 | 13.5 | 15.2 | 12.2 |
| Women | 8.4 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 8.4 | 18.1 | 2.6 | 6.1 | 11.8 | 10.6 |
| HISPANIC | 8.5 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 8.6 | 7.1 | 12.1 | 10.0 | 14.3 | 15.1 | 15.7 |
| Men | 4.5 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 7.1 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 8.9 | 9.7 | 7.7 | 8.9 |
| Women | 4.0 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 3.7 | 8.2 | 1.1 | 4.6 | 7.4 | 6.7 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN | 6.3 | 5.4 | 12.0 | 5.5 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 2.7 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.2 |
| Men | 3.9 | 3.6 | 7.8 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 2.9 | 3.1 |
| Women | 2.4 | 1.9 | 4.2 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 2.1 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 |
| Men | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Women | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
This page was last modified on March 14, 2008.