Where Haitian TPS workers work

Note that on June 25 the Supreme Court allowed the administration to proceed with terminating Haiti’s TPS designation.

Haitian TPS workers are heavily concentrated in a small number of occupations. Of the estimated 200,000 Haitian TPS beneficiaries who are employed in the United States, about 11% work as cooks or restaurant servers, compared with 2.4% of the total U.S. workforce. Another 11% work as stockers, warehouse workers or packers, compared with 2.7% of all U.S. workers.

Agricultural workers account for 7.5% of employed Haitian TPS beneficiaries, while about 0.6% percent of total U.S. employment is in agriculture.  Retail employees represent 7% of Haitian TPS workers, compared with 3.2% of the overall workforce. Nursing assistants account for 6.5% of employed Haitian TPS beneficiaries, compared with 0.9% of all U.S. workers.

Together, these five occupational groups employ roughly 43% of working Haitian TPS beneficiaries, compared to 10% of the total workforce.

The median hourly wages of these jobs is slightly under $20 an hour. The median wage of all high school graduate worker is about $24.50.

Much of this data from the American Immigration Council.

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