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| 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 | 657,389 | 52,328 | 57,464 | 17,769 | 38,601 | 58,883 | 37,909 | 29,138 | 42,669 | 322,628 |
| Men | 354,141 | 31,209 | 32,686 | 12,486 | 15,443 | 17,059 | 27,713 | 21,174 | 32,649 | 163,722 |
| Women | 303,248 | 21,119 | 24,778 | 5,283 | 23,158 | 41,824 | 10,196 | 7,964 | 10,020 | 158,906 |
| WHITE | 422,284 | 42,561 | 45,054 | 14,044 | 24,586 | 40,224 | 28,996 | 18,091 | 24,468 | 184,260 |
| Men | 229,922 | 25,785 | 25,168 | 9,778 | 9,893 | 11,626 | 21,060 | 13,687 | 18,709 | 94,216 |
| Women | 192,362 | 16,776 | 19,886 | 4,266 | 14,693 | 28,598 | 7,936 | 4,404 | 5,759 | 90,044 |
| MINORITY | 235,105 | 9,767 | 12,410 | 3,725 | 14,015 | 18,659 | 8,913 | 11,047 | 18,201 | 138,368 |
| Men | 124,219 | 5,424 | 7,518 | 2,708 | 5,550 | 5,433 | 6,653 | 7,487 | 13,940 | 69,506 |
| Women | 110,886 | 4,343 | 4,892 | 1,017 | 8,465 | 13,226 | 2,260 | 3,560 | 4,261 | 68,862 |
| BLACK | 90,983 | 4,072 | 5,082 | 1,628 | 5,711 | 7,847 | 2,825 | 4,791 | 5,392 | 53,635 |
| Men | 44,886 | 2,134 | 3,210 | 1,175 | 2,254 | 1,912 | 2,026 | 2,748 | 3,813 | 25,614 |
| Women | 46,097 | 1,938 | 1,872 | 453 | 3,457 | 5,935 | 799 | 2,043 | 1,579 | 28,021 |
| HISPANIC | 101,598 | 3,514 | 3,994 | 1,202 | 5,238 | 7,316 | 4,518 | 4,885 | 11,376 | 59,555 |
| Men | 57,973 | 2,070 | 2,640 | 916 | 2,044 | 2,460 | 3,641 | 3,913 | 9,186 | 31,103 |
| Women | 43,625 | 1,444 | 1,354 | 286 | 3,194 | 4,856 | 877 | 972 | 2,190 | 28,452 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN | 39,162 | 1,970 | 3,148 | 770 | 2,856 | 3,170 | 1,405 | 1,227 | 1,185 | 23,431 |
| Men | 19,637 | 1,100 | 1,567 | 531 | 1,154 | 986 | 873 | 732 | 759 | 11,935 |
| Women | 19,525 | 870 | 1,581 | 239 | 1,702 | 2,184 | 532 | 495 | 426 | 11,496 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN | 3,362 | 211 | 186 | 125 | 210 | 326 | 165 | 144 | 248 | 1,747 |
| Men | 1,723 | 120 | 101 | 86 | 98 | 75 | 113 | 94 | 182 | 854 |
| Women | 1,639 | 91 | 85 | 39 | 112 | 251 | 52 | 50 | 66 | 893 |
| 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 | 53.9 | 59.6 | 56.9 | 70.3 | 40.0 | 29.0 | 73.1 | 72.7 | 76.5 | 50.7 |
| Women | 46.1 | 40.4 | 43.1 | 29.7 | 60.0 | 71.0 | 26.9 | 27.3 | 23.5 | 49.3 |
| WHITE | 64.2 | 81.3 | 78.4 | 79.0 | 63.7 | 68.3 | 76.5 | 62.1 | 57.3 | 57.1 |
| Men | 35.0 | 49.3 | 43.8 | 55.0 | 25.6 | 19.7 | 55.6 | 47.0 | 43.8 | 29.2 |
| Women | 29.3 | 32.1 | 34.6 | 24.0 | 38.1 | 48.6 | 20.9 | 15.1 | 13.5 | 27.9 |
| MINORITY | 35.8 | 18.7 | 21.6 | 21.0 | 36.3 | 31.7 | 23.5 | 37.9 | 42.7 | 42.9 |
| Men | 18.9 | 10.4 | 13.1 | 15.2 | 14.4 | 9.2 | 17.5 | 25.7 | 32.7 | 21.5 |
| Women | 16.9 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 5.7 | 21.9 | 22.5 | 6.0 | 12.2 | 10.0 | 21.3 |
| BLACK | 13.8 | 7.8 | 8.8 | 9.2 | 14.8 | 13.3 | 7.5 | 16.4 | 12.6 | 16.6 |
| Men | 6.8 | 4.1 | 5.6 | 6.6 | 5.8 | 3.2 | 5.3 | 9.4 | 8.9 | 7.9 |
| Women | 7.0 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 9.0 | 10.1 | 2.1 | 7.0 | 3.7 | 8.7 |
| HISPANIC | 15.5 | 6.7 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 13.6 | 12.4 | 11.9 | 16.8 | 26.7 | 18.5 |
| Men | 8.8 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 9.6 | 13.4 | 21.5 | 9.6 |
| Women | 6.6 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 5.1 | 8.8 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN | 6.0 | 3.8 | 5.5 | 4.3 | 7.4 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 2.8 | 7.3 |
| Men | 3.0 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 3.7 |
| Women | 3.0 | 1.7 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 3.6 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| Men | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Women | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
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