In 2017, 18.7 percent of people age 16 and older with a disability were employed. That compares with 65.7 percent of people without a disability. More workers with a disability worked in education and health services (21.6 percent) than in any other industry. Education and health services employed 33.8 percent of women with a disability, compared with 11.5 percent of men with a disability.
Retail trade employed 12.7 percent of workers with a disability, compared with 10.8 percent of workers with no disability. Agriculture and related industries employed 3.1 percent of workers with a disability, which was twice the percentage of workers with no disability.
Employed people with a disability were nearly equally likely to work in manufacturing (10.2 percent) and in leisure and hospitality (9.0 percent) as people without a disability (10.0 percent and 9.3 percent, respectively).
These data are from the Current Population Survey. See "Persons with a Disability: Labor Force Characteristics — 2017" for more information. For more statistics on people with a disability, see Demographics: Disability.