2021 Number of Jobs, Labor Market Experience, Marital status, and Health: Results from a National Longitudinal Survey — 2021-08-31

Individuals born in the latter years of the baby boom (1957-64) held an average of 12.4 jobs from ages 18 to 54, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nearly half of these jobs were held from ages 18 to 24. These findings are from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, a survey of 9,964 men and women who were ages 14 to 22 when first interviewed in 1979 and ages 53 to 62 when interviewed most recently in 2018-19. These respondents were born in the years 1957 to 1964, the latter years of the baby boom that occurred in the United States from 1946 to 1964. The survey spans 39 years and provides information on work and nonwork experiences, education, training, income and assets, health, and other characteristics.