2023 Persons with a Disability: Labor Force Characteristics — 2024-02-22

In 2023, 22.5 percent of people with a disability were employed--the highest recorded ratio since comparable data were first collected in 2008. This rate increased by 1.2 percentage points from the prior year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Similarly, the employment-population ratio for those without a disability, at 65.8 percent, increased by 0.4 percentage point in 2023. The unemployment rate for people with a disability (7.2 percent) was little changed in 2023, while the rate for those without a disability was unchanged over the year at 3.5 percent. The data on people with a disability are collected as part of the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly sample survey of about 60,000 households that provides statistics on employment and unemployment in the United States. The collection of data on people with a disability is sponsored by the Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy.