Page 9 - Racial Disparities Taskforce Group 5 Data Summary

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations:
Service occupations:
Management, business, science, and arts occupations:
Sales and office occupations:
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations: Production, transportation, and material moving occupations:
1,482 11%
54%
5,155 32% 4,507 28% 3,877 24% 3,877 23% 2,725 17%
Female:
16,264
Figure 3 - 2019 Occupations by Median Hourly Earnings highlighted: (FPL to ALICE Threshold)
Management Occupations Architecture and Engineering Occupations Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations Legal Occupations Computer and Mathematical Occupations Business and Financial Operations Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations Construction and Extraction Occupations Community and Social Service Occupations Production Occupations Education, Training, and Library Occupations Military-only occupations Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations
Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media...
Office and Administrative Support Occupations Transportation and Material Moving Occupations Protective Service Occupations Healthcare Support Occupations
Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance... Sales and Related Occupations Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations Personal Care and Service Occupations Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations
$39.05 $35.49
$33.92 $33.12
$31.42 $28.61
$23.87 $22.17
$21.19 $20.96 $20.87
$20.73 $20.35
$17.27 $15.58
$14.87 $13.92
$13.02 $12.82
$11.91 $11.33
$10.76 $9.83
$9.45 $14.45 $19.45 $24.45
$29.45 $34.45
$39.45
Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; U.S. Department of Agriculture; Bureau of Labor Statistics; Internal Revenue Service; Tax Foundation; and Early Childhood Investment Corporation.
When discussing inequities in the labor force, the greatest inequities are to be found with respect to higher education, household and personal income, and by the occupation or the median hourly wages of the occupations that do not provide living wage opportunities for families.
Providing Access to Career Pathways
It is critically important for us to develop new ways of sharing career and employment information and opportunities, and to increase the availability of funding needed to assist adults who desire to earn credentials, to access living wage opportunities if we‘re going to improve