Chief executives at 8.4%. Management analysts at 9.6%. The Fortune 500 boards, C-suites, and strategy functions setting corporate direction, capital allocation, and workforce policy for the largest institutions in the economy are among the least representative decision-making bodies in American professional life.
| Occupation | Latino % · green line = 20.0% workforce benchmark | Gap vs. benchmark | Total employed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chief executives | 8.4% | -11.6pp | 1,802K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Management analysts | 9.6% | -10.4pp | 1,084K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Project management specialists | 10.0% | -10.0pp | 1,150K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Marketing managers | 11.5% | -8.5pp | 669K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Human resources managers | 13.3% | -6.7pp | 314K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Sales managers | 13.5% | -6.5pp | 563K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| General and operations managers | 14.1% | -5.9pp | 1,379K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping | 15.5% | -4.5pp | 124K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Purchasing managers | 16.1% | -3.9pp | 222K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Human resources workers | 16.2% | -3.8pp | 897K | 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.