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Employed people by sex, occupation, class of worker, full‐ or part‐time status, and race

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HOUSEHOLD DATA
ANNUAL AVERAGES
12. Employed people by sex, occupation, class of worker, full- or part-time status, and race[In thousands]
Category	Total		White		Black or African American		Asian
Category	2024	2025	2024	2025	2024	2025	2024	2025
Total, 16 years and over	161,346	163,493	123,033	123,766	20,728	20,823	11,271	12,238
Men	85,313	86,562	66,152	66,473	9,983	10,130	5,925	6,453
Women	76,033	76,931	56,881	57,293	10,745	10,694	5,345	5,785

OCCUPATION
Management, professional, and related occupations	70,744	71,338	54,256	54,364	7,511	7,243	6,643	7,291
Management, business, and financial operations occupations	30,602	31,049	24,419	24,570	2,955	2,961	2,257	2,502
Management occupations	20,657	20,876	16,727	16,808	1,884	1,834	1,417	1,544
Business and financial operations occupations	9,945	10,173	7,692	7,763	1,071	1,127	840	958
Professional and related occupations	40,142	40,289	29,836	29,793	4,556	4,282	4,386	4,789
Computer and mathematical occupations	6,386	6,711	4,098	4,171	616	636	1,490	1,691
Architecture and engineering occupations	3,552	3,675	2,727	2,788	258	227	467	554
Life, physical, and social science occupations	1,877	1,858	1,362	1,355	157	154	281	286
Community and social service occupations	2,950	2,846	2,119	2,061	564	517	123	116
Legal occupations	1,832	1,880	1,505	1,575	181	154	105	112
Education, training, and library occupations	9,587	9,452	7,550	7,494	1,067	998	626	627
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	3,483	3,504	2,777	2,829	322	280	227	220
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	10,475	10,364	7,699	7,521	1,390	1,315	1,067	1,183
Service occupations	26,452	27,230	18,838	19,309	4,662	4,853	1,610	1,671
Healthcare support occupations	5,456	5,830	3,332	3,519	1,470	1,565	389	455
Protective service occupations	3,110	3,344	2,194	2,347	669	693	99	115
Food preparation and serving related occupations	8,061	8,292	5,917	6,075	1,128	1,236	533	531
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations	5,770	5,708	4,535	4,419	815	858	161	174
Personal care and service occupations	4,055	4,057	2,860	2,949	580	501	428	396
Sales and office occupations	29,885	30,604	23,109	23,378	3,889	4,089	1,715	1,858
Sales and related occupations	14,090	14,159	11,129	11,017	1,527	1,634	889	933
Office and administrative support occupations	15,795	16,444	11,980	12,360	2,362	2,455	825	924
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	14,391	14,550	12,280	12,395	1,161	1,134	287	334
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	970	1,000	860	874	44	38	16	9
Construction and extraction occupations	8,520	8,490	7,334	7,351	635	592	130	152
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	4,901	5,060	4,085	4,169	482	504	141	174
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	19,873	19,770	14,550	14,321	3,507	3,504	1,016	1,085
Production occupations	7,944	7,889	6,046	5,997	1,130	1,124	454	450
Transportation and material moving occupations	11,930	11,881	8,504	8,325	2,377	2,380	562	634

CLASS OF WORKER
Agriculture
Wage and salary workers(1)	1,564	1,523	1,418	1,374	60	53	22	18
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	661	680	635	645	9	10	3	5
Unpaid family workers	29	22	27	22	0	0	0	0
Nonagricultural industries
Wage and salary workers(1)	149,788	152,074	113,501	114,343	19,706	19,820	10,680	11,684
Government	21,729	21,906	16,121	16,214	3,539	3,372	1,132	1,300
Private industries	128,059	130,168	97,380	98,129	16,166	16,448	9,548	10,384
Private households	649	580	523	476	75	48	27	33
Other industries	127,411	129,588	96,857	97,653	16,091	16,400	9,520	10,351
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	9,259	9,156	7,414	7,353	950	937	562	525
Unpaid family workers	44	38	37	29	3	3	4	5

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS(2)
Full-time workers	133,361	134,927	101,136	101,619	17,634	17,599	9,527	10,427
Part-time workers	27,985	28,566	21,897	22,147	3,094	3,224	1,743	1,811
Footnotes (1) Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated. (2) Employed people are classified as full- or part-time workers based on their usual weekly hours at all jobs regardless of the number of hours they are at work during the reference week. People absent from work also are classified according to their usual status. Full time is 35 hours or more per week; part time is less than 35 hours.
NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups will not sum to totals because data are not presented for all races. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Annual estimates for 2025 are 11-month averages that exclude October. (Data for October 2025 were not collected due to the federal government shutdown.) As a result, 2025 annual estimates are not strictly comparable with annual averages for other years.

Last Modified Date: February 20, 2026