Industry · Finance
Finance & Banking: The industry that prices everything else.
Financial planners decide what families can afford. Loan officers decide what businesses can build. Board directors decide what gets funded. Latinos are 5–6% of all of them.
The Breakdown
Latino representation across sub-occupations.
Gold line = 19.5% U.S. Latino population parity (Census ACS 2023). Each row sourced individually below.
Certified Financial Planners
2.7%
CFP Board 2023
CPAs (active)
4.8%
AICPA 2023
Commercial Bank Officers
~6%
EEOC EEO-1 2022
Fortune 1000 Board Directors
5.1%
LCDA 2024
Hedge Fund / Private Equity Partners
~2%
Knight Foundation 2021
Investment Banking VP+
~3%
EEOC EEO-1 2022
Primary source: Federal Reserve (2022). Survey of Consumer Finances. Board of Governors.
Why This Matters
The mechanism inside this number.
The wealth gap (5× white household wealth. Federal Reserve SCF 2022) and the representation gap are the same gap, viewed from opposite ends. Capital accumulates where the people pricing capital came from.
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