Securities sales agents at 6.8%. Financial analysts at 8.9%. The professionals managing the wealth, retirement accounts, mortgages, and business loans of Latino households, the fastest-growing segment of U.S. small business ownership, are drawn, at the licensed level, almost entirely from outside those households.
| Occupation | Latino % · green line = 20.0% workforce benchmark | Gap vs. benchmark | Total employed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents | 6.8% | -13.2pp | 199K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Personal financial advisors | 8.3% | -11.7pp | 576K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Financial and investment analysts | 8.9% | -11.1pp | 422K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel | 10.8% | -9.2pp | 695K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Insurance underwriters | 11.4% | -8.6pp | 142K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Accountants and auditors | 11.5% | -8.5pp | 1,766K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Business and financial operations occupations | 12.4% | -7.6pp | 10,173K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Budget analysts | 12.5% | -7.5pp | 67K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Management, business, and financial operations occupations | 13.1% | -6.9pp | 31,049K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Financial managers | 13.3% | -6.7pp | 1,431K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Credit counselors and loan officers | 14.1% | -5.9pp | 352K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents | 14.7% | -5.3pp | 52K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Other financial specialists | 15.7% | -4.3pp | 115K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Insurance sales agents | 17.2% | -2.8pp | 618K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Insurance claims and policy processing clerks | 17.7% | -2.3pp | 274K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Financial clerks, all other | 19.0% | -1.0pp | 161K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Tax preparers | 23.7% | +3.7pp | 134K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Taxi drivers | 28.1% | +8.1pp | 575K | 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.