{"id":532,"date":"2017-05-18T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2017-05-17T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T15:47:17","slug":"jobs-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/jobs-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Most People Have Had Only 1 or 2 Jobs in the Last Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may feel like the average person these days changes jobs with every new moon, but that\u2019s hardly the case.<\/p>\n<p>About three-quarters of workers have had only one or two full-time jobs in the last five years, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>. That\u2019s in line with national averages: according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the typical American worker has been in their current job for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/tenure.nr0.htm\">a little over four years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking a bit closer, it\u2019s true that people in tech appear to change jobs slightly more often than those in other industries &#8212; 24% of those in tech have changed jobs at least three times in the last five years vs. 19% of those in other industries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tech:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-535\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/tech2-1.png\" alt=\"tech2\" width=\"1118\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/tech2-1-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/tech2-1-768x212.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/tech2-1-1024x282.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/tech2-1.png 1118w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Non-tech:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-536\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/nontech2.png\" alt=\"nontech2\" width=\"1101\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/nontech2-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/nontech2-768x206.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/nontech2-1024x274.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/nontech2.png 1101w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out the full reports for workers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/other\/all-department\/83-how-many-full-time-jobs-have-you-had-in-the-last-five-years\">in<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/other\/all-department\/83-how-many-full-time-jobs-have-you-had-in-the-last-five-years\">out<\/a> of tech. All figures referenced above are as of May 17 and include responses from 10,000 workers in tech and 5,000 workers outside of tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may feel like the average person these days changes jobs with every new moon, but that\u2019s hardly the case. About three-quarters of workers have had only one or two full-time jobs in the last five years, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. That\u2019s in line with national averages: according &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/jobs-five-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[59,58,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}