The U.S. Department of Energy’s 17 National Laboratories lead the nation in advancing the frontiers of scientific knowledge, keeping our nation secure, and fueling our clean energy economy. The innovation at the heart of the Laboratories’ past and future success benefits from the fusion of diverse talents and inclusive perspectives. This includes the broad spectrum of individual characteristics reflected by race, color, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, religion, culture, language, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, family structure, and diversity of thought, technical expertise, and life experience.

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Demographic Data for the National Labs

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Women

Under-Represented Minorities

Other People of Color


Types of Jobs Total Women Women %  URM URM % OPC OPC %
Senior Leadership
(Director/President, Deputy Director/Vice President, Associate Lab Director)
324 118 36.42% 39 12.04% 18 5.56%
Research/Technical Management (first-line and mid-level)
(Engineering Management, Research Management, Technical Management)
5,200 1,031 19.83% 637 12.25% 582 11.19%
Operations (or Research Support) Management
(Business Management, Computer Systems, Communications, ESHQ, Facilities Ops, HR, Legal, Tech Transfer, Strategic Planning)
5,417 1,898 35.04% 974 17.98% 273 5.04%
Technical Research Staff
(Non-management: Researchers, Scientists, or Engineers)
30,233 6,195 20.49% 3,925 12.98% 4,417 14.61%
Operations Support Staff
(Non-management: support roles)
26,573 11,673 43.93% 8,495 31.97% 1121 4.22%
Post Doctoral
(Post-doc employees)
3,420 941 27.51% 289 8.45% 1,439 42.08%
Graduate Student
(Funded by Lab)
3,470 1,143 32.94% 654 18.85% 800 23.05%
Undergraduate Student
(Funded by Lab, does not include undergrad student funded by DOE directly (i.e. SULI))
2,631 1,034 39.30% 773 29.38% 390 14.82%
Totals 77,268 24,033 31.10% 15,786 20.43% 9,040 11.70%

Demographic data snapshot as of 7/1/22. NETL data submitted as of 9/30/20.
Includes: Laboratory recruited roles (includes roles waived from posting), postdoc employees, and students funded by the lab (not DOE funded students)
Excludes: Unknown ethnicity and multi ethnicities
URM = Under Represented Minorities (e.g.: African American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, and American Indian/Alaskan Native)
OPC = Other People of Color (e.g.: Asian/Asian American and Pacific Islanders.
Includes data from all 17 national labs.