The majority of Black, Latinx, Pacific Islander, and Native American workers in non-essential occupations have jobs that are deemed high risk.

Risk profile of non-essential occupations by race/ethnicity, where higher risk jobs have a physical proximity score greater than 3.25
Source: PolicyLink/PERE analysis of data from the 2018 5-year American Community Survey microdata from IPUMS USA, Burning Glass Technologies, and O*NET. Note: Universe includes the employed civilian noninstitutional population age 16 or older in occupations with valid data on weekly job openings between 3/2/2020 and 4/13/2020. See methodology for details. Get the data