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Government & Public Service: The institutions paid for by the public, staffed by a fraction of it.
Federal workforce. State legislatures. City managers. The bench from which elected officials are recruited. All under 11%.
The Breakdown
Latino representation across sub-occupations.
Gold line = 19.5% U.S. Latino population parity (Census ACS 2023). Each row sourced individually below.
Federal Civilian Workforce
10.1%
OPM FedScope 2023
Federal Senior Executive Service
7.4%
OPM 2023
State Legislators (national)
6%
NALEO 2024
City/County Managers
~5%
ICMA Survey 2022
Foreign Service Officers
7.5%
U.S. State Dept 2023
U.S. Congress
10%
CRS 2024
Primary source: OPM (2023). FedScope Federal Workforce Data. U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Why This Matters
The mechanism inside this number.
The Senior Executive Service. the corps from which most federal agency leaders are drawn. has a Latino share that has barely moved in fifteen years (OPM 2023). The bench is the bottleneck.
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