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.

Read more…


 

Demographic Data for the National Labs

Change Data View:

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)
255 92 36.08% 30 11.76% 11 4.31%
Research/Technical Management (first-line and mid-level)
(Engineering Management, Research Management, Technical Management)
4,888 1,002 20.50% 487 9.96% 550 11.25%
Operations (or Research Support) Management
(Business Management, Computer Systems, Communications, ESHQ, Facilities Ops, HR, Legal, Tech Transfer, Strategic Planning)
5,369 1,788 33.30% 1,066 19.85% 281 5.23%
Technical Research Staff
(Non-management: Researchers, Scienitists, or Engineers)
30,842 6,608 21.43% 4,631 15.02% 4,734 15.35%
Operations Support Staff
(Non-management: support roles)
27,616 12,244 44.34% 9,276 33.59% 1,348 4.88%
Post Doctoral
(Post-doc employees)
3,086 862 27.93% 280 9.07% 1,335 43.26%
Graduate Student
(Funded by Lab)
3,205 1,054 32.89% 601 18.75% 749 23.37%
Undergraduate Student
(Funded by Lab, does not include undergrad student funded by DOE directly [i.e. SULI])
3,025 1,211 40.03% 908 30.02% 516 17.06%
Totals 78,286 24,861 31.76% 17,279 22.07% 9,524 12.17%

Date of Data: July 1, 2023
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.