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 | 2,901,115 | 190,480 | 63,933 | 53,081 | 1,698,452 | 166,306 | 54,616 | 80,309 | 391,779 | 202,159 |
| Men | 1,047,888 | 98,449 | 32,618 | 14,420 | 445,473 | 28,958 | 38,795 | 49,423 | 244,014 | 95,738 |
| Women | 1,853,227 | 92,031 | 31,315 | 38,661 | 1,252,979 | 137,348 | 15,821 | 30,886 | 147,765 | 106,421 |
| WHITE | 1,880,187 | 147,934 | 49,536 | 39,344 | 1,071,288 | 119,517 | 36,025 | 52,629 | 234,218 | 129,696 |
| Men | 671,316 | 77,119 | 25,561 | 10,136 | 276,941 | 19,011 | 25,318 | 32,469 | 144,147 | 60,614 |
| Women | 1,208,871 | 70,815 | 23,975 | 29,208 | 794,347 | 100,506 | 10,707 | 20,160 | 90,071 | 69,082 |
| MINORITY | 1,020,928 | 42,546 | 14,397 | 13,737 | 627,164 | 46,789 | 18,591 | 27,680 | 157,561 | 72,463 |
| Men | 376,572 | 21,330 | 7,057 | 4,284 | 168,532 | 9,947 | 13,477 | 16,954 | 99,867 | 35,124 |
| Women | 644,356 | 21,216 | 7,340 | 9,453 | 458,632 | 36,842 | 5,114 | 10,726 | 57,694 | 37,339 |
| BLACK | 497,567 | 19,191 | 4,482 | 5,330 | 314,092 | 22,111 | 7,285 | 11,489 | 79,679 | 33,908 |
| Men | 177,576 | 9,048 | 2,038 | 1,439 | 79,413 | 4,388 | 5,454 | 6,737 | 52,442 | 16,617 |
| Women | 319,991 | 10,143 | 2,444 | 3,891 | 234,679 | 17,723 | 1,831 | 4,752 | 27,237 | 17,291 |
| HISPANIC | 377,416 | 15,551 | 2,838 | 5,318 | 223,719 | 18,144 | 8,634 | 12,670 | 60,656 | 29,886 |
| Men | 145,793 | 8,515 | 1,473 | 1,762 | 63,675 | 4,116 | 6,480 | 8,198 | 37,117 | 14,457 |
| Women | 231,623 | 7,036 | 1,365 | 3,556 | 160,044 | 14,028 | 2,154 | 4,472 | 23,539 | 15,429 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN | 118,705 | 6,503 | 6,861 | 2,680 | 73,019 | 5,371 | 2,122 | 2,784 | 12,514 | 6,851 |
| Men | 43,610 | 3,084 | 3,449 | 999 | 21,353 | 1,215 | 1,125 | 1,610 | 7,526 | 3,249 |
| Women | 75,095 | 3,419 | 3,412 | 1,681 | 51,666 | 4,156 | 997 | 1,174 | 4,988 | 3,602 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN | 27,240 | 1,301 | 216 | 409 | 16,334 | 1,163 | 550 | 737 | 4,712 | 1,818 |
| Men | 9,593 | 683 | 97 | 84 | 4,091 | 228 | 418 | 409 | 2,782 | 801 |
| Women | 17,647 | 618 | 119 | 325 | 12,243 | 935 | 132 | 328 | 1,930 | 1,017 |
| 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 | 36.1 | 51.7 | 51.0 | 27.2 | 26.2 | 17.4 | 71.0 | 61.5 | 62.3 | 47.4 |
| Women | 63.9 | 48.3 | 49.0 | 72.8 | 73.8 | 82.6 | 29.0 | 38.5 | 37.7 | 52.6 |
| WHITE | 64.8 | 77.7 | 77.5 | 74.1 | 63.1 | 71.9 | 66.0 | 65.5 | 59.8 | 64.2 |
| Men | 23.1 | 40.5 | 40.0 | 19.1 | 16.3 | 11.4 | 46.4 | 40.4 | 36.8 | 30.0 |
| Women | 41.7 | 37.2 | 37.5 | 55.0 | 46.8 | 60.4 | 19.6 | 25.1 | 23.0 | 34.2 |
| MINORITY | 35.2 | 22.3 | 22.5 | 25.9 | 36.9 | 28.1 | 34.0 | 34.5 | 40.2 | 35.8 |
| Men | 13.0 | 11.2 | 11.0 | 8.1 | 9.9 | 6.0 | 24.7 | 21.1 | 25.5 | 17.4 |
| Women | 22.2 | 11.1 | 11.5 | 17.8 | 27.0 | 22.2 | 9.4 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 18.5 |
| BLACK | 17.2 | 10.1 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 18.5 | 13.3 | 13.3 | 14.3 | 20.3 | 16.8 |
| Men | 6.1 | 4.8 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 4.7 | 2.6 | 10.0 | 8.4 | 13.4 | 8.2 |
| Women | 11.0 | 5.3 | 3.8 | 7.3 | 13.8 | 10.7 | 3.4 | 5.9 | 7.0 | 8.6 |
| HISPANIC | 13.0 | 8.2 | 4.4 | 10.0 | 13.2 | 10.9 | 15.8 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 14.8 |
| Men | 5.0 | 4.5 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | 11.9 | 10.2 | 9.5 | 7.2 |
| Women | 8.0 | 3.7 | 2.1 | 6.7 | 9.4 | 8.4 | 3.9 | 5.6 | 6.0 | 7.6 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN | 4.1 | 3.4 | 10.7 | 5.0 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 3.4 |
| Men | 1.5 | 1.6 | 5.4 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.6 |
| Women | 2.6 | 1.8 | 5.3 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 0.9 |
| Men | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Women | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
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