Professional occupations with retirement benefits are overwhelmingly white-staffed

Evidence

The Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies jobs outside of service, sales, transportation, and construction as “professional and related occupations”; this broad category includes everything from architect to zoologist, but what these jobs have in common is that they’re the most likely to come with tax-free perks. Almost two-thirds (66.4 percent) of employers in those professional industries sponsor retirement accounts, and their workforce is 80 percent white and 9.4 percent black. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 364

Categorization

• CANDY: Simple paired stats — 66.4 percent of professional employers sponsor retirement, workforce 80 percent white — make a clean conversational point about benefit segregation.