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People with disabitities are less tikety to work in a for-profit setting, a private company, or local <br />government; and more tikety to work for private non-profits, state and federal government, or be setf- <br />emptoyed. They are also less tikety to work in management, business, science, and arts occupations, <br />and more tikety to work in service; sales and office; natural resources, construction, and maintenances; <br />or production, transportation, and material moving occupations. (U.S. Census Bureau, 2019) <br />Percent of Emptoyed Poputation 16 and ove6 by lndustry <br />25 <br />20 <br />l5 <br />10 <br />5 <br />0 ll ru ffilf'ir <br />5'7 5.4 6.6 <br />ir li ilr <br />5 4.6 <br />l[, i'd'i <br />2 <br />t.a t.t iffirH <br />o"*-""'..-'*1""*"t "t T s*"-s'{t"-s.'"'1..d <br />-..a .u"'"" <br />-^'-"t Los' <br />*'"'"'*-o t"c .s-.u..o":o <br />.,"". *.,tt ."".tt ^'""{et .*ron' <br />t <br />*.-tt .*.*t <br />t'"" <br />;: a Disabirity nNo Disab*ity <br />(U.S. Census Bureau, 2019) <br />The median annual earnings of peopte with disabitities is 524,106, compared to 536,066 for peopte <br />without disabitities. People with disabitities are also significantly more tikety to tiving in poverty with <br />32.4% tiving betow 150% of the poverty [evel, compared to only 17 .8% of people without disabitities. <br />(U.S. Census Bureau, 2019) <br />The COVID-19 pandemic has drasticatty affected employment opportunities in Washington State, <br />especially for peopte with developmental disabitities. After several years of maintaining about 65% of <br />working age adults with developmental disabitities who received supportive emptoyment services who <br />earned a wage, this percentage dropped to 44% by Juty of 2020. (Washington State Devetopmentat <br />Disabilities Administration,202l) ln 2019, 4% of peopte receiving supportive emptoyment services <br />earned subminimum wage and 24% were job seeking with no wages reported. The higher the acuity <br />level, the lower percentage of peopte receiving minimum wage or self-emptoyed. (Washington State <br />Devetopmental Disabitities Administration, 2020) <br />9