This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Workforce Diversity Indicators Initiative. The first round of analysis focused on workforce participation, job sector employment and worker income. Local data were benchmarked against 14 peer regions.
The data are largely drawn from U.S. Census Bureau Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program’s Quarterly Workforce Indicators. The program combines U.S. Census Bureau and state data to produce the most comprehensive data sets available on wages and employment. Primary sources include state unemployment insurance records and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages reported by employers covering 98 percent of U.S. jobs.
Other sources include minority employment-related data from the 2013 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, an annual survey of U.S. households, and the findings of the Pittsburgh Regional Quality of Life Survey conducted in 2011 by UCSUR researchers and Pittsburgh Today.
Data & Charts
Workforce participation by minority subgroups – Pittsburgh
Share of jobs held by minority workers
Workforce participation by minority subgroups – peer regions
Share of minority-held jobs by industry – Pittsburgh
Average monthly incomes of minority workers – Pittsburgh
Minority worker income – peer regions
African American worker income – peer regions
Hispanic/Latino worker income – peer regions
Asian minority worker income – peer regions
Growth in minority share of jobs
Percent of individual minority populations in labor force