July 31, 2012 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Number of jobs held and job duration for baby boomers, 1978–2010

Average number of jobs for persons ages 18 to 46, by age and sex, 1978–2010
Age	Total	Men	Women
Total, 18 to 46	11.3	11.5	11.1
18 to 24	5.5	5.7	5.3
25 to 29	3.0	3.1	2.8
30 to 34	2.4	2.6	2.3
35 to 39	2.1	2.1	2.0
40 to 46	2.1	2.1	2.1

Duration of employment relationships with a single employer for all jobs started from age 18 to 46, by age at start of job, 1978–2010
Age	Percent ended
Age	Less than 1 year	Less than 2 years	Less than 5 years	Less than 10 years
18 to 24	69.1	82.9	92.9	96.4
25 to 29	56.2	73.1	87.0	93.0
30 to 34	47.8	64.7	82.8	90.9
35 to 39	37.6	55.4	76.3	86.0
40 to 46	32.8	50.8	69.0	(1)
Footnotes: (1) Estimates for age 40-46, less than 10 years, are not presented because most sample members were not yet old enough at the time.

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