A-20. Employed persons by occupation, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and sex

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A-20. Employed persons by occupation, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and sex [Percent distribution]
Occupation, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity	Total		Men		Women
Occupation, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity	Sept. 2023	Sept. 2024	Sept. 2023	Sept. 2024	Sept. 2023	Sept. 2024
TOTAL
Total, 16 years and over (thousands)	161,669	162,046	85,745	85,754	75,924	76,292
Percent of total employed	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Management, professional, and related occupations	43.6	43.8	39.6	39.7	48.1	48.3
Management, business, and financial operations occupations	19.0	19.0	19.4	19.7	18.6	18.2
Professional and related occupations	24.5	24.7	20.1	19.9	29.5	30.1
Service occupations	16.5	16.7	13.2	13.3	20.2	20.4
Sales and office occupations	18.8	18.3	14.1	13.5	24.1	23.7
Sales and related occupations	8.9	8.5	8.6	8.4	9.2	8.7
Office and administrative support occupations	9.9	9.8	5.5	5.2	14.9	15.0
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	8.8	9.0	15.7	16.0	1.1	1.2
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	0.7	0.6	0.9	0.9	0.4	0.4
Construction and extraction occupations	5.1	5.3	9.2	9.6	0.4	0.5
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	3.1	3.1	5.5	5.5	0.3	0.3
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	12.3	12.3	17.5	17.5	6.5	6.4
Production occupations	5.0	4.7	6.6	6.1	3.3	3.1
Transportation and material moving occupations	7.3	7.5	10.9	11.4	3.2	3.2

White
Total, 16 years and over (thousands)	123,547	123,659	66,569	66,478	56,978	57,181
Percent of total employed	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Management, professional, and related occupations	43.7	44.0	39.6	39.6	48.6	49.1
Management, business, and financial operations occupations	19.7	19.9	20.4	20.7	19.0	19.0
Professional and related occupations	24.0	24.1	19.2	18.8	29.6	30.1
Service occupations	15.3	15.6	12.3	12.5	18.9	19.1
Sales and office occupations	19.2	18.6	14.2	13.6	25.0	24.3
Sales and related occupations	9.1	8.7	8.9	8.7	9.4	8.8
Office and administrative support occupations	10.0	9.8	5.3	4.9	15.6	15.5
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	10.0	10.1	17.5	17.6	1.2	1.3
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	0.8	0.8	1.0	1.0	0.4	0.4
Construction and extraction occupations	5.9	6.0	10.5	10.6	0.5	0.5
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	3.4	3.3	6.0	5.9	0.3	0.3
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	11.8	11.8	16.4	16.7	6.4	6.2
Production occupations	5.0	4.8	6.6	6.2	3.1	3.1
Transportation and material moving occupations	6.7	7.1	9.8	10.5	3.2	3.1

Black or African American
Total, 16 years and over (thousands)	20,622	20,780	9,966	10,153	10,656	10,626
Percent of total employed	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Management, professional, and related occupations	36.0	36.3	29.3	30.3	42.3	42.1
Management, business, and financial operations occupations	14.8	14.3	13.6	14.1	15.9	14.5
Professional and related occupations	21.2	22.0	15.7	16.1	26.4	27.5
Service occupations	22.6	23.2	19.1	18.8	25.8	27.4
Sales and office occupations	19.1	18.2	14.5	14.1	23.5	22.0
Sales and related occupations	8.4	7.4	7.9	7.2	9.0	7.6
Office and administrative support occupations	10.7	10.8	6.6	6.9	14.5	14.5
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	5.2	5.8	10.2	11.1	0.6	0.8
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.2
Construction and extraction occupations	2.7	3.1	5.3	6.0	0.2	0.3
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	2.2	2.4	4.2	4.8	0.2	0.2
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	17.1	16.5	27.0	25.7	7.8	7.7
Production occupations	6.0	5.3	7.8	6.8	4.3	3.8
Transportation and material moving occupations	11.1	11.2	19.2	18.9	3.5	3.9

Asian
Total, 16 years and over (thousands)	11,288	11,206	5,970	5,820	5,318	5,386
Percent of total employed	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Management, professional, and related occupations	59.9	59.4	61.4	61.9	58.3	56.8
Management, business, and financial operations occupations	21.4	20.5	21.8	21.9	21.1	19.1
Professional and related occupations	38.5	38.9	39.6	40.0	37.3	37.6
Service occupations	15.0	14.2	10.8	10.5	19.8	18.2
Sales and office occupations	14.5	15.4	12.6	11.8	16.6	19.3
Sales and related occupations	7.7	8.4	7.6	7.5	7.8	9.5
Office and administrative support occupations	6.8	6.9	5.0	4.4	8.8	9.7
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	2.4	2.3	4.1	3.9	0.5	0.6
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.3
Construction and extraction occupations	0.9	1.1	1.6	1.8	0.0	0.3
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	1.4	1.1	2.3	2.1	0.4	0.0
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	8.2	8.6	11.2	11.9	4.8	5.1
Production occupations	3.3	3.3	3.5	4.0	3.1	2.6
Transportation and material moving occupations	4.9	5.3	7.7	7.9	1.7	2.5

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity
Total, 16 years and over (thousands)	30,706	31,481	17,288	17,672	13,418	13,809
Percent of total employed	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Management, professional, and related occupations	25.7	25.7	21.9	21.6	30.5	30.9
Management, business, and financial operations occupations	11.9	12.0	12.0	12.1	11.8	11.8
Professional and related occupations	13.7	13.7	9.8	9.5	18.7	19.1
Service occupations	24.0	24.1	18.6	18.7	30.9	30.9
Sales and office occupations	17.5	17.1	12.0	11.0	24.7	24.9
Sales and related occupations	7.6	7.7	6.3	6.6	9.3	9.1
Office and administrative support occupations	9.9	9.5	5.7	4.5	15.4	15.9
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	15.7	16.6	26.1	27.5	2.2	2.6
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	1.5	1.6	1.8	2.0	1.0	1.0
Construction and extraction occupations	10.5	11.3	18.0	19.3	0.9	1.1
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	3.7	3.7	6.3	6.2	0.4	0.5
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	17.2	16.6	21.5	21.1	11.7	10.7
Production occupations	7.4	6.3	8.4	7.2	6.2	5.2
Transportation and material moving occupations	9.7	10.2	13.0	13.9	5.5	5.5
NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups (White, Black or African American, and Asian) do not sum to totals because data are not presented for all races. Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Effective with January 2020 data, occupations reflect the introduction of the 2018 Census occupational classification system, derived from the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). No historical data have been revised. Data for 2020 are not strictly comparable with earlier years.

Last Modified Date: October 04, 2024