2024 Labor Market Experience, Education, Partner Status, and Health for those Born 1980-1984 — 2026-05-05

(Note: BLS reissued this news release on July 17th, 2026, to correct some of the date and age ranges in table 6, and to delete an extra digit in the title of table 4, both in the HTML version of the news release. No data estimates were affected.) Americans born in the early 1980s held an average of 9.4 jobs from age 18 through age 38, 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 2.9 jobs from ages 30 to 38. While ages 18 to 38, both men and women with some college or an associate degree and women with a bachelor's degree and higher held more jobs than those with other educational attainments.