2026 Massachusetts Workforce Data Report & Dashboard

Explore and download state workforce data and analysis based on Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) reports from Massachusetts employers.

Introduction

The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development presents this workforce report and data dashboard in partnership with the Boston Women’s Workforce Council and members of Boston University’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, Department of Computer Science, and Department of Sociology.

This data has been collected from reports submitted by Massachusetts employers under the Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act of 2024. For more details on data collection and reporting standards, please see Workforce Data Reporting FAQs.

This webpage includes several ways to access data and insights on the Massachusetts workforce:

• Access Key Learnings or download the full, ADA-compliant PDF report 
• Explore the data using an interactive dashboard, including by NAICS industry, by job category, and by county
• Download the anonymized, aggregated data

Key Learnings & Full Report Download

EEO-1 Key Learnings

• Female employees make up 53% of the reported EEO-1 workforce but hold only one third of senior executive positions and more than three quarters of administrative support roles.
• Black or African American and Hispanic or Latino employees are underrepresented in professional and managerial roles and overrepresented in service and laborer positions in the reporter data set relative to their Census workforce shares.
• These disparities appear to compound at the intersection of race and sex: White males hold 53% of senior management roles, while Black or African American and Hispanic or Latina females each hold roughly 2% each.
• Very large organizations in the data set show modestly greater sex and racial diversity in senior roles than smaller firms.
• Reported Massachusetts workers in the data set are heavily concentrated in Professional and First/Mid Level Officials and Managers roles, as defined in the EEO-1 Job Categories (see Appendix D in the full report.)

EEO-4 Key Learnings

• Overall, the workforce of the state and local government divisions that submitted EEO-4 forms is 52% male and 48% female and remains predominantly White (69%), followed by Black or African American (15%), Hispanic or Latino (10%), and Asian (4%). Males outnumber females among White employees, while female employees outnumber male employees in all other racial-ethnic groups.
• Female employees in the data set are heavily concentrated in certain government functions, comprising 67% of Health and 81% of Public Welfare workers, while remaining a small fraction in Fire Protection (6%), Sanitation and Sewage (10%), and Police Protection (25%).
• Reported data is grouped into a limited number of ranges with the highest reported range being greater than or equal to $70,000. Most employees in the data set earn $70,000 or more, which does not approach the average weekly wage in Massachusetts as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the fourth quarter of 2025 and limits insight into variation. 
• Among employers submitting EEO-4 forms, White employees hold a disproportionate share of the highest reported salary range, making up nearly three-quarters of workers in the $70,000+ salary band. Black or African American employees are significantly overrepresented in the middle salary bands and Hispanic or Latino employees are overrepresented at the lowest pay level.
• A majority of reported new employees are male (53%), but the racial-ethnic composition of new hires is more racially diverse: 22% of the new hires are Black or African American and 12% are Hispanic or Latino.

Massachusetts Workforce Data Interactive Dashboard

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How to Use the Dashboard

For the best user experience, please visit the dashboard using a laptop or desktop computer. The dashboard is organized into four sections or “views.” Select a view from the home page and click the icon in the top right corner to return to the home page. Use the drop-down filters to customize and filter the data, and hover your cursor over the visualizations for more information.

Reference & Data Download

Data Source

This report analyzes 2026 EEO data collected from forms submitted by two separate groups of Massachusetts filers:

• EEO-1 Form: Private and nonprofit organizations with 100+ employees. Massachusetts received data for ~760,000 employees in 2026, covering about 37% of the total Massachusetts EEO-1 workforce.
• EEO-4 Form: State and local government entities with 100+ employees. Massachusetts received data for ~71,000 employees in 2026, covering about 57% of the Massachusetts EEO-4 state and local government workforce. 

Please note only EEO-1 data is displayed in the dashboard. For more details on data collection and reporting standards, please see Workforce Data Reporting FAQs.

Securing the Data

Several steps were taken to protect data and identity of respondents. These include physical and logical access controls, cryptographically secure multi-party computation to provide end-to-end data confidentiality, and differential privacy techniques. More information about data security can be found in the Methodology section of the full report. 

Organizational Sizes

For the EEO-1 analysis, the team created a variable called “organizational size” that classifies EEO-1 organizations into four categories based on the number of employees they report. The approximate composition of these categories is as follows:

• Small: 200 or fewer employees
• Medium: more than 200 but less than 600 employees
• Large: more than 600 but less than 2,500
• Very Large: more than 2,500 employees