In the US the U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS says in 2023, 22.5 percent of people with a disability were employed, compared with 65.8 percent of those without a disability. The unemployment rate for people with a disability (7.2 percent) was little changed in 2023. The rate for people without a disability (3.5 percent) was unchanged.
In Canada, the data is from 2022.
“Highlights
In 2022, the employment rate for those aged 16 to 64 with disabilities was 65.1%, compared with 80.1% for those without disabilities. The employment rate for persons with disabilities varied by the severity of the disability. Those with a severe disability were employed at a rate of 50.4% and those with a very severe disability were employed at a rate of 26.8%.
In 2022, the unemployment rate for persons aged 16 to 64 with disabilities was 6.9%. The rate was nearly twice as high as for persons in the same age group without disabilities (3.8%). The unemployment rate for persons with disabilities was higher than for persons without disabilities among both women and men.
Persons with disabilities were more likely to work in the public sector than those without disabilities (24.2% of employed persons with disabilities were employed in the public sector, compared with 21.0% of those without disabilities) and to be self-employed (13.0% of those with disabilities, compared with 11.4% of those without disabilities).
Median hourly wages for persons with disabilities ($26.00) were 5.5% less than for those without disabilities ($27.50) in 2022.
These findings are from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and its supplement program, which for the first time in 2022, collected information for the 12 months of the year on persons with disabilities.”
