The largest proportion of workers with a disability, 21.2%, worked in education and health services in 2014, according to a report released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The smallest share, 0.9%, worked in the mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction industry.

The bureau reported 17.1% of persons with a disability were employed in 2014, compared to 64.6% of those without a disability.

Women with a disability were most likely to work in education and health services, 33%, and least likely to work in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction, 0.2%, in 2014. However, the largest share of men with a disability, 14.2%, worked in manufacturing. Like women with a disability, men with a disability were least likely to work in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction, 1.5%.

In 2014, 13% workers with a disability worked in retail trade, compared to 11% for those without a disability.

The unemployment rate for persons with a disability was 12.5% in 2014, about twice the rate of 5.9% for those with no disability.