Millennials' job tenure no shorter than that of Aprior generation % of 18- to 35-year-old workers by length of employment with current employer 13 months or more Note: Workers refers to wage and salary workers The self. employed are not included. Workers who have worked for their current employer for more than one year are
Millennial workers, those ages 18 to 35, are just as likely to stick with their employers as their older counterparts in Generation X were when they were young adults, according to recently released government data.
And among the college-educated, Millennials have longer track records with their employers than Generation X workers did in 2000 when they were the same age as today’s Millennials.
In January 2016, 63.4% of employed Millennials, the generation born between 1981 and 1998, reported that they had worked for their current employer at least 13 months. In February 2000, somewhat fewer 18- to 35-year-olds (59.9%) – most of whom are today’s Gen Xers – reported similar job tenure. Looking at young workers with longer tenures, 22% of Millennial workers had been with their employer for at least five years as of 2016, similar to the share of Gen X workers (21.8%) in 2000.
Millennials' job tenure no shorter than  | that of Aprior generation  | % of 18- to 35-year-old workers by length  | of employment with current employer  | 13 months or more  | Millennial in 2016  | 63 .4%  | Gen X in 2000  | 59.9  | 5 years or more  | Millennial in 2016  | 22 0  | Gen X in 2000  | 21.8  | Note: Workers refers to wage and salary workers The  | self. employed are not included. Workers who have worked  | for their current employer for more than one year are  | considered to have worked 13 months or more Workers who  | have worked for their current employer for more than four  | years are considered to have worked five years or more. Gen  | X in 2000 includes workers born between 1965 and 1982  | and includes some older Millennials born after 1980.  | Source: Pew Research Center analysis of Current Population  | Survey Displaced Worker Supplements  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 