INTERACTIVE
U.S. occupational composition: Top 15 jobs in which a demographic group is overrepresented
Percentage of an occupation represented by a selected group and their associated average annual wage
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Notes: These data only include occupations with at least 50,000 employed workers who are aged 20 or older. Average wages are calculated for those who have earned a wage, and are those earned by the group selected, not the occupation as a whole. AIAN includes those who have identifed as American Indian alone or Alaska Native alone, with American Indian and Alaska Native tribes specified, or as American Indian alone or Alaska Native alone without specification of tribe. AAPI includes those who have identified as Asian alone or Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander. Hispanic or Latino ethnicity can include individuals of any race.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "ACS 5-Year Estimates 5-Year Estimates – Public Use Microdata Sample, 2019," available at https://data.census.gov/mdat/#/ (last accessed February 2022).