Demographic shares of select occupations, 2025
| Immigrant | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Total employed (thousands) | Women | White | Black | Hispanic | AAPI | Other race | Naturalized US citizen | Not a US citizen |
| Construction laborers | 8,340 | 4.3% | 48.3% | 6.3% | 42.0% | 2.2% | 1.2% | 8.7% | 25.4% |
| Customer service representatives | 2,604 | 64.8% | 51.8% | 17.4% | 22.6% | 7.0% | 1.3% | 7.2% | 5.6% |
| Driver/sales workers and truck drivers | 3,584 | 7.8% | 49.3% | 19.5% | 25.7% | 5.0% | 0.5% | 12.4% | 10.5% |
| Home health aides | 725 | 86.0% | 29.5% | 27.8% | 28.6% | 13.0% | 1.2% | 25.4% | 19.5% |
| Janitors and building cleaners | 2,340 | 36.2% | 43.5% | 16.4% | 35.6% | 3.3% | 1.3% | 11.5% | 21.1% |
| Landscaping and groundskeeping workers | 1,113 | 7.9% | 41.0% | 9.4% | 47.5% | 1.2% | 0.9% | 7.8% | 30.5% |
| Maids and housekeeping cleaners | 1,392 | 86.4% | 29.3% | 13.8% | 49.8% | 5.7% | 1.5% | 17.5% | 38.3% |
| Manicurists and pedicurists | 276 | 85.0% | 12.5% | 4.9% | 14.6% | 67.0% | 1.0% | 46.2% | 22.7% |
| Personal care aides | 1,840 | 79.7% | 38.8% | 26.7% | 23.1% | 9.9% | 1.6% | 15.9% | 11.5% |
| Retail salespersons | 2,665 | 47.1% | 58.9% | 13.2% | 20.5% | 6.4% | 1.1% | 7.4% | 6.8% |
| Security guards and gambling surveillance officers | 964 | 22.9% | 36.1% | 35.7% | 21.2% | 5.4% | 1.7% | 8.4% | 5.8% |
| All occupations | 163,493 | 47.1% | 58.1% | 12.6% | 20.0% | 8.2% | 1.1% | 9.7% | 9.4% |
Notes: AAPI refers to Asian American and Pacific Islander. Race and ethnicity are mutually exclusive (i.e. White non-Hispanic, Black non-Hispanic, Hispanic any race, AAPI non-Hispanic, Other, non-Hispanic).
Source: Authors' analysis of the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 2026.3.11, https://microdata.epi.org.