2022 Labor Market Experience, Education, Partner Status, and Health for those Born 1980-1984 — 2024-04-02

(Note: BLS reissued this news release on March 11, 2026, to correct errors for all values presented in the last column of table 2, showing the "Percent of jobs ongoing in 2021 survey.") Americans born in the early 1980s held an average of 9.0 jobs from age 18 through age 36, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. These adults held more jobs at younger ages: they held an average of 5.1 jobs from ages 18 to 23 compared with 2.5 jobs from ages 30 to 36. While aged 18 to 36, women with more education held more jobs than women with less education. Regardless of education, men held a similar number of jobs. These findings are from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, a nationally representative survey of about 9,000 men and women who were born during the years 1980 to 1984.