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Retail trade employed 13.1 percent of all workers with a disability in 2024
March 04, 2025
In 2024, there were about 7.7 million people with a disability employed in the United States and 153.6 million with no disability. Out of the workers with a disability, 13.1 percent worked in the retail trade industry, higher than the 10.0 percent of those employed in the same industry with no disability.
Percent distribution of employed people by disability status and nonagricultural industry, 2024
Industry
With a disability
With no disability
Education and health services
21.8
23.1
Retail trade
13.1
10.0
Professional and business services
12.0
13.3
Leisure and hospitality
9.5
8.7
Manufacturing
8.5
9.4
Construction
6.3
7.5
Other services
6.0
4.7
Transportation and utilities
5.9
6.1
Financial activities
5.8
6.8
Public administration
5.4
5.0
Information
1.7
1.8
Wholesale trade
1.6
2.0
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
0.3
0.4
The other industries where people with a disability had a higher concentration than people with no disability were leisure and hospitality (9.5 percent with a disability compared with 8.7 percent with no disability), and other services (6.0 percent compared with 4.7 percent).
The concentration of workers in the transportation and utilities, information, and public administration industries, was similar regardless of disability status.
United States Department of Labor
