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About one-third of wage and salary workers had 10 or more years of tenure in January 2022
October 24, 2022
In January 2022, 31.0 percent of all wage and salary workers age 25 and over had 10 or more years of tenure with their current employer, down from 32.2 percent in January 2020. Among men, 32.2 percent of wage and salary workers had at least 10 years of tenure with their current employer, higher than the figure for women (29.6 percent).
Percent of employed wage and salary workers age 25 and over with 10 years or more of tenure with their current employer, selected years, 1983–2022
Month
Total
Men
Women
Jan 1983
31.9%
37.7%
24.9%
Jan 1987
30.7
35.0
25.7
Jan 1991
32.2
35.9
28.2
Feb 1996
30.5
33.1
27.6
Feb 1998
30.7
32.7
28.4
Feb 2000
31.5
33.4
29.5
Jan 2002
30.8
32.6
28.8
Jan 2004
30.6
32.4
28.6
Jan 2006
30.0
31.1
28.8
Jan 2008
31.5
32.9
30.0
Jan 2010
33.1
34.3
31.9
Jan 2012
33.7
34.6
32.8
Jan 2014
33.3
34.0
32.6
Jan 2016
33.2
33.8
32.6
Jan 2018
33.2
33.8
32.5
Jan 2020
32.2
33.1
31.2
Jan 2022
31.0
32.2
29.6
The gap between men and women with 10 or more years of tenure has lessened over time. In 1983, 37.7 percent of men had 10 or more years of tenure, compared with 24.9 percent for women.
The share of wage and salary workers age 16 and over with a year or less of tenure with their current employer was 24.3 percent in January 2022, up from 22.2 percent in January 2020. This short-tenured group includes new hires, job losers who found new jobs during the previous year, and workers who had voluntarily changed employers during the year.
Percent distribution of employed wage and salary workers by tenure with their current employer, by age, January 2022
Age
12 months or less
13 to 23 months
2 years
3 to 4 years
5 to 9 years
10 to 14 years
15 to 19 years
20 years or more
Total
24.3%
5.7%
5.2%
17.9%
19.9%
9.7%
6.4%
10.8%
16 to 19 years
78.5
8.8
6.0
6.4
0.3
0.0
0.0
0.0
20 to 24 years
54.2
12.4
9.9
19.1
4.3
0.0
0.0
0.0
25 to 34 years
30.6
7.6
7.2
25.9
23.2
5.0
0.6
0.0
35 to 44 years
19.2
5.3
4.7
18.8
25.4
14.0
9.2
3.4
45 to 54 years
12.9
4.0
3.9
15.4
21.2
13.2
10.4
18.9
55 to 64 years
11.6
2.5
2.5
12.6
19.3
12.6
10.1
28.9
65 years and over
11.2
2.2
3.0
11.7
19.5
13.9
9.9
28.5
Younger workers were more likely than older workers to be short-tenured employees. For example, in January 2022, 78.5 percent of 16- to 19-year-olds had tenure of 12 months or less with their current employer, compared with 11.2 percent of workers age 65 and over.
United States Department of Labor
