Latino workers are 73% of U.S. crop production workers, the backbone of American food supply. Latino farm owners: 7.1%. The workers who do the most essential labor in American agriculture own the fewest acres, carry the fewest loans, and sit on the fewest state agriculture boards. This is the sharpest within-industry inversion in the dataset.
| Occupation | Latino % · green line = 20.0% workforce benchmark | Gap vs. benchmark | Total employed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers | 7.1% | -12.9pp | 810K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Architects, except landscape and naval | 10.5% | -9.5pp | 254K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products | 13.7% | -6.3pp | 296K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products | 14.5% | -5.5pp | 179K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Agricultural and food science technicians | 29.2% | +9.2pp | 55K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| First-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers | 38.3% | +18.3pp | 50K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations | 48.1% | +28.1pp | 1,000K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Miscellaneous agricultural workers | 52.3% | +32.3pp | 765K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Graders and sorters, agricultural products | 66.0% | +46.0pp | 58K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
Benchmark: 20.0% = U.S. Latino share of civilian labor force (BLS CPS 2025 annual average). California benchmark: 40.3% (CA Latino population share, 2020 Census). The green vertical line in each bar marks the 20.0% national workforce benchmark.
Data & Methodology
These tables are the BLS Current Population Survey, in which people report their own occupation. Elsewhere on this site we cite the profession registries (AAMC for physicians, ABA for attorneys, LCDA for board seats), which count licensed members of a profession. The two disagree, and we show both rather than pick the flattering one: the CPS puts Latino lawyers at 9.2%, while the ABA, counting licensed attorneys, puts them at 6.0%. Where the two differ, the figure we stand behind and cite is the registry.
The parity line is 20.0%, the Latino share of everyone employed in America (BLS CPS 2025, Table 11). Occupations employing fewer than 150,000 people carry wide sampling error and are never used as a headline figure here.
Occupation data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey (CPS) Table 11, 2025 annual average. "Latino" = "Hispanic or Latino" per BLS CPS coding. All figures are annual averages of monthly survey estimates; small occupations (<50,000 workers) have higher margin of error.
Silicon Valley Technology figures sourced from cirlabs / Reveal News EEO-1 analysis of large tech employers, 2016 (most recent public EEO-1 release with race × job category × company detail). Internal job classifications differ from BLS CPS categories.
Gap = Latino % − 20.0% U.S. Latino workforce benchmark (BLS CPS 2025). Negative gap = underrepresented relative to workforce share. All data public domain. Script and source: github.com/turnerll/ligazon.