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Number of Jobs, Labor Market Experience, and Earnings Growth Among Americans at 50: Results From a Longitudinal Survey
August 24, 2017
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following news release:

Individuals born in the latter years of the baby boom (1957-1964) held an average of 11.9 jobs from age 18 to age 50, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Nearly half 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 . . .

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