2025 Number of Jobs, Labor Market Experience, Marital Status, and Health for those Born 1957–1964 — 2025-08-26

(Note: This news release was reissued on July 21, 2026, to correct the title of table 2 and some age ranges in tables 4 and 6.) Individuals born in the latter years of the baby boom (1957-64) held an average of 12.9 jobs from ages 18 to 58, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Over 40 percent 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 57 to 66 when interviewed most recently in 2022-23. 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.