Occupations of Workers who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, 2011, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology
Note: Use the "List of Occupational Categories"
Citation: National Technical Institute for the Deaf. “Collaboratory Statistics about Deafness and Occupation.” Rochester Institute of Technology, 2011, www.rit.edu/ntid/collaboratory/occupations. Accessed 6 Feb. 2024.
Workers with a Disability by Detailed Occupation, U.S. Census Bureau, 2017
Use Table 2: Workers with a Disability by Detailed Occupation and Type of Disability: 2017
Date Interpretation Note: Per occupational category, take the percent under hearing difficulty and divide it into the number of total workers with a disability. For example, 38.7% of 767,440 chief executives with a disability are hearing disabled. In other words, with a slight margin of error, the U.S. Census Bureau counted 296,999 chief executives with a hearing disability in 2017.
Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. “Table 2. Workers with a Disability by Detailed Occupation and Type of Disability: 2017.” Workers with a Disability by Detailed Occupation, United States Census Bureau, 2017, www.census.gov/data/tables/2017/demo/disability/acs-17.html. Accessed 5 Feb. 2024.
Deaf Postsecondary Data from the American Community Survey (2022): Occupational Fields, National Deaf Center on Post Secondary Outcomes at the University of Texas at Austin
Data Interpretation Example: Deaf people make up 1.33% of people employed in the fields of architecture and engineering. Of that 1.33%, 52.4% of Deaf people have a Bachelor's Degree with a median earning of $87,000.
Citation: Bloom, C.L, Palmer, J.L., & Winninghoff, J. (2024). Deaf Postsecondary Data from the American Community Survey [Data visualization tool]. National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes, University of Texas at Austin. www.nationaldeafcenter.org/dashboard.
Deaf People and Employment in the United States, 2019, National Deaf Center on Post Secondary Outcomes at the University of Texas at Austin
Note: See pages 14-15.
Data Interpretation Example: The most common occupational field for Deaf people is manufacturing, with 15.7% of deaf people employed in this industry.
Citation: Garberoglio, Carrie, et al. Deaf People and Employment in the United States: 2019. 2019, nationaldeafcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Deaf-People-and-Employment-in-the-United-States_-2019-7.26.19ENGLISHWEB.pdf.
Hearing Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 2023, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Citation: “Hearing Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act.” U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 24 Jan. 2023, www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/hearing-disabilities-workplace-and-americans-disabilities-act. Accessed 5 Feb. 2024.
Accommodation and Compliance: Deafness, Job Accommodation Network
Citation: “Accommodation and Compliance: Deafness.” Job Accommodation Network, Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor, askjan.org/disabilities/Deafness.cfm. Accessed 5 Feb. 2024.
Employment Laws and Regulations, National Association of the Deaf
Citation: “Employment Laws and Regulations.” National Association of the Deaf, www.nad.org/nerc/laws-and-regs/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2024.
Employment Toolkit, Hearing Loss Association of America
Citation: “Employment Toolkit.” Hearing Loss Association of America, www.hearingloss.org/hearing-help/communities/employees/employment-toolkit/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2024.
Simple Accommodations for Deaf Employees You May Have Never Considered, 2015, Society for Human Resources Management
Citation: Wilkie, Dana. “Simple Accommodations for Deaf Employees You May Have Never Considered.” Society for Human Resource Management, 24 Nov. 2015, www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/inclusion-equity-diversity/simple-accommodations-deaf-employees-may-never-considered. Accessed 6 Feb. 2024.