• Foreign-Born Workers in U.S.

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The unemployment rate for the foreign born was 9.1 percent in 2011, down from 9.8 percent in 2010. The jobless rate of the native born was 8.9 percent in 2011, compared with 9.6 percent in the prior year. In 2011, there were 24.4 million foreign-born persons in the U.S. labor force, comprising 15.9 percent of the total. Hispanics accounted for 49.0 percent of the foreign-born labor force in 2011. Asians accounted for 22.3 percent. Foreign-born workers were more likely than native-born workers to be employed in service occupations; production, transportation, and material moving occupations; and natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations. The median usual weekly earnings of foreign-born full-time wage and salary workers were $609 in 2011, compared with $780 for their native- born counterparts. Source: USDOL-BLS

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