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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).
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.
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.
These data are from the Current Population Survey. To learn more, see “Employee Tenure in 2022.”
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, About one-third of wage and salary workers had 10 or more years of tenure in January 2022 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/about-one-third-of-wage-and-salary-workers-had-10-or-more-years-of-tenure-in-january-2022.htm (visited October 31, 2024).