Share of Foreign-Born Workers in U.S. Workforce, 2010 This figure shows the share of foreign-born workers in the U.S. workforce, categorized by educational level. For example, among workers with 0 to 11 years of education, about 40% were foreign-born. At the other end of the spectrum, the foreign-born make up 16% of workers with Master’s and professional degrees, almost 30% of those with Ph.D.’s, and almost 40% of those with Ph.D.’s in science and engineering. In the middle educational levels (high school and college graduates), there are much smaller shares of foreign-born workers, ranging from 10% to 15%. On the horizontal axis, we show the share of U.S.-born workers in each educational group. Only about 8% to 10% of U.S.-born workers are categorized in each of the low-education and high-education groups; most U.S.-born workers are either high school graduates or college graduates.
Source: 2010 American Community Survey, U.S. Census Bureau.