Latinos are 20.0% of everyone who works in America and 6.7% of its physicians. The sector responsible for the health of a 62-million-person community is staffed, at its highest levels, almost entirely without them. The concordance gap, the distance between who needs care and who delivers it, is not a diversity metric. It is a clinical outcome variable.
| Occupation | Latino % · green line = 20.0% workforce benchmark | Gap vs. benchmark | Total employed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surgeons | 1.3% | -18.7pp | 73K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Physical therapists | 4.8% | -15.2pp | 338K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Occupational therapists | 5.8% | -14.2pp | 138K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Pharmacists | 6.1% | -13.9pp | 365K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Other physicians | 6.6% | -13.4pp | 929K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Nurse practitioners | 6.8% | -13.2pp | 325K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Veterinarians | 6.8% | -13.2pp | 91K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Dietetic technicians and ophthalmic medical technicians | 6.8% | -13.2pp | 68K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Mental health counselors | 7.2% | -12.8pp | 218K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Medical scientists | 7.3% | -12.7pp | 102K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Cardiovascular technologists and technicians | 7.5% | -12.5pp | 67K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Speech-language pathologists | 8.1% | -11.9pp | 203K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Dietitians and nutritionists | 8.9% | -11.1pp | 136K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Physical therapist assistants and aides | 9.5% | -10.5pp | 130K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Magnetic resonance imaging technologists | 9.6% | -10.4pp | 64K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Registered nurses | 10.0% | -10.0pp | 3,528K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Paramedics | 10.6% | -9.4pp | 117K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations | 11.0% | -9.0pp | 10,364K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Industrial engineers, including health and safety | 11.0% | -9.0pp | 274K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Massage therapists | 11.7% | -8.3pp | 183K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Healthcare social workers | 11.8% | -8.2pp | 118K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Environmental scientists and specialists, including health | 12.0% | -8.0pp | 63K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Physician assistants | 12.2% | -7.8pp | 153K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Medical secretaries and administrative assistants | 12.3% | -7.7pp | 103K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Dental and ophthalmic laboratory technicians and medical appliance technicians | 12.3% | -7.7pp | 75K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Medical records specialists | 12.9% | -7.1pp | 166K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Medical and health services managers | 13.2% | -6.8pp | 905K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Pharmacy technicians | 13.6% | -6.4pp | 373K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Radiologic technologists and technicians | 13.7% | -6.3pp | 274K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Veterinary technologists and technicians | 13.8% | -6.2pp | 145K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Other healthcare practitioners and technical occupations | 14.0% | -6.0pp | 139K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Orderlies and psychiatric aides | 14.1% | -5.9pp | 60K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Dentists | 14.8% | -5.2pp | 192K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses | 15.9% | -4.1pp | 545K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians | 16.2% | -3.8pp | 313K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Occupational health and safety specialists and technicians | 16.2% | -3.8pp | 83K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Therapists, all other | 16.3% | -3.7pp | 323K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Other engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters | 16.3% | -3.7pp | 385K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Surgical technologists | 16.9% | -3.1pp | 107K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Miscellaneous health technologists and technicians | 17.1% | -2.9pp | 126K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians | 17.2% | -2.8pp | 79K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Diagnostic medical sonographers | 17.5% | -2.5pp | 119K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers | 17.6% | -2.4pp | 63K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Other healthcare support workers | 17.6% | -2.4pp | 205K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive | 17.8% | -2.2pp | 1,491K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Personal care and service workers, all other | 18.1% | -1.9pp | 147K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Respiratory therapists | 18.5% | -1.5pp | 89K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Emergency medical technicians | 18.9% | -1.1pp | 135K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Personal care and service occupations | 20.6% | +0.6pp | 4,057K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Healthcare support occupations | 21.1% | +1.1pp | 5,830K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Personal care aides | 23.1% | +3.1pp | 1,840K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Medical assistants | 27.4% | +7.4pp | 680K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Home health aides | 28.7% | +8.7pp | 726K | BLS CPS Table 11, 2025 annual avg |
| Dental assistants | 29.8% | +9.8pp | 287K | 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.