| Post: | United States Deputy Secretary of Labor |
| Insignia: | Seal of the United States Department of Labor.svg |
| Insigniacaption: | Seal of the Department of Labor |
| Incumbent: | Julie Su |
| Incumbentsince: | July 17, 2021 |
| Acting: | no |
| Department: | United States Department of Labor |
| Style: | Madam Deputy Secretary |
| Reports To: | United States Secretary of Labor |
| Seat: | Washington, D.C. |
| Appointer: | The President of the United States |
| Appointer Qualified: | with Senate advice and consent |
| Termlength: | No fixed term |
| Formation: | March 4, 1913 |
| First: | Louis F. Post |
| Salary: | Executive Schedule, level II |
The United States deputy secretary of labor is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Labor. In the United States federal government, the deputy secretary oversees the day-to-day operation of the Department of Labor, and may act as secretary of labor during the absence of the secretary. The deputy secretary is appointed by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate and the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
The following is a list of deputy secretaries of labor or earlier equivalent positions.[1]
| Image | Name | Term | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant secretary (1913–1925) | ||||
| 1 | Louis F. Post | 1913–1921 | ||
| 2 | Edward J. Henning | 1921–1925 | ||
| First assistant secretary (1925–1946) | ||||
| 3 | Robe C. White | 1925–1933 | ||
| 4 | Edward F. McGrady | 1933–1937 | ||
| 5 | Charles V. McLaughlin | 1938–1941 | ||
| 6 | Daniel W. Tracy | 1941–1946 | ||
| – | John W. Gibson (Acting) | 1946 | ||
| Under secretary (1946–1986) | ||||
| 7 | Keen Johnson | 1946–1947 | ||
| 8 | David A. Morse | 1947–1948 | ||
| 9 | Michael J. Galvin | 1949–1953 | ||
| 10 | Lloyd A. Mashburn | 1953 | ||
| 11 | Arthur Larson | 1954–1956 | ||
| 12 | James T. O'Connell | 1957–1961 | ||
| 13 | W. Willard Wirtz | 1961–1962 | ||
| 14 | John F. Henning | 1962–1967 | ||
| 15 | James J. Reynolds | 1967–1969 | ||
| 16 | James D. Hodgson | 1969–1970 | ||
| 17 | Laurence Silberman | 1970–1973 | ||
| 18 | Richard F. Schubert | 1973–1975 | ||
| 19 | Robert O. Aders | 1975–1976 | ||
| 20 | Michael Moskow | 1976–1977 | ||
| 21 | Robert J. Brown | 1977–1980 | ||
| 22 | John N. Gentry | 1980–1981 | ||
| – | Vacant | 1981–1982 | ||
| 23 | Malcolm R. Lovell, Jr. | 1982–1983 | ||
| – | Vacant | 1983–1984 | ||
| 24 | Ford B. Ford | 1984–1986 | ||
| Deputy secretary (since 1986) | ||||
| 25 | Dennis E. Whitfield | 1986–1989 | ||
| 26 | Roderick DeArment | 1989–1992 | ||
| 27 | Delbert L. Spurlock, Jr. | 1992–1993 | ||
| 28 | Thomas P. Glynn | 1993–1996 | ||
| – | Cynthia A. Metzler (Acting) | 1996–1997 | ||
| – | Vacant | 1997–1998 | ||
| 29 | Kathryn O. Higgins | 1998–2000 | ||
| 30 | Edward B. Montgomery | 2000–2001 | ||
| 31 | D. Cameron Findlay | 2001–2003 | ||
| 32 | Steven J. Law | 2003–2007 | ||
| 33 | Howard M. Radzely | 2007–2009 | ||
| 34 | Seth Harris | 2009–2014 | ||
| – | M. Patricia Smith | 2014 | ||
| 35 | 2014–2017 | |||
| 36 | Patrick Pizzella | 2018–2021 | ||
| 37 | Julie Su | 2021– | ||