Table 4. Employed people by disability status, industry, class of worker, and sex, 2025 annual averages

Table 4. Employed people by disability status, industry, class of worker, and sex, 2025 annual averages [Percent distribution]
Industry and class of worker	People with a disability			People with no disability
Industry and class of worker	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
Total employed (in thousands)	8,029	4,138	3,891	155,463	82,424	73,039

Industry as a percent of total employed
Total employed	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Agriculture and related industries	2.1	3.0	1.0	1.3	1.8	0.8
Nonagricultural industries	97.9	97.0	99.0	98.7	98.2	99.2
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.1
Construction	6.2	10.5	1.5	7.5	12.5	1.8
Manufacturing	8.8	11.9	5.5	9.3	12.4	5.7
Wholesale trade	1.6	2.0	1.1	1.8	2.4	1.2
Retail trade	12.5	11.7	13.4	10.1	10.4	9.7
Transportation and utilities	6.0	8.6	3.3	6.3	8.9	3.3
Information	1.6	2.0	1.3	1.7	2.0	1.4
Financial activities	5.7	4.7	6.8	6.9	6.5	7.4
Professional and business services	13.1	15.4	10.7	13.5	14.7	12.1
Education and health services	21.8	11.3	32.9	23.3	11.2	37.0
Leisure and hospitality	9.2	7.7	10.8	8.5	7.7	9.4
Other services	5.9	5.3	6.4	4.7	4.2	5.2
Public administration	5.2	5.4	5.1	4.8	4.9	4.8

Class of worker as a percent of total employed
Total employed(1)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Wage and salary workers(2)	90.9	89.3	92.5	94.1	93.4	94.9
Private industries	76.8	77.0	76.6	80.7	82.6	78.5
Government	14.0	12.3	15.9	13.4	10.8	16.3
Federal	3.4	3.9	2.9	2.4	2.6	2.2
State	5.2	3.8	6.7	4.7	3.4	6.2
Local	5.4	4.6	6.3	6.2	4.8	7.9
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	9.1	10.7	7.4	5.9	6.5	5.1
Footnotes (1) Includes a small number of unpaid family workers, not shown separately. (2) Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated.
NOTE: Effective with January 2025 data, industries reflect the introduction of the 2022 Census industry classification system, derived from the 2022 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). No historical data have been revised. Data for 2025 are not strictly comparable with earlier years. 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.

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