Veteran statistics

Veterans in the Workplace

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Last updated May 30, 2016 12:00 am

There are 413,723 veterans living in Wisconsin, roughly 7.2 percent of the state population. Of them, more than 300,000 served during wartime.
Roughly one out of every four employed veterans works for the government.
Veterans are more than twice as likely as non-veterans to work in the public sector.
Around 65 percent of all veterans work in the private sector.
Of all veterans who work in the private sector, 36 percent work in management or professional positions. For female veterans, the percentage is significantly higher – 49.5 percent — and for men, it’s slightly lower – 35 percent.
Veterans are both more likely to be employed and more likely to earn a salary at or above 400 percent of the poverty line than non-veterans.
There is no statistical difference between the proportion of male veterans who become self-employed after ending their military careers and their non-veteran counterparts (both cohorts account for about 11.5 percent of their respective populations). Female veterans, however, are less likely than female nonveterans to become self-employed. Only 4.5 percent are self-employed, compared to 7.4 percent of female nonveterans.