2015 Number of Jobs, Labor Market Experience, and Earnings Growth: Results from a National Longitudinal Survey — 2015-03-31

Note: This news release was reissued on April 1, 2015, to correctly refer to the latter years of the baby boom as 1957-1964 under the Percent Growth in Real Earnings section. No other data were affected. The average person born in the latter years of the baby boom (1957-1964) held 11.7 jobs from age 18 to age 48, 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 47 to 56 when interviewed most recently in 2012-13. 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.