Age Demographics for Industry Workforces. Employment survey data indicates groups of public sector workers tend to be older than the workforce as a whole. In 2012, the median age for all workers employed nationwide was 42.3 years. The following data shows 2012 annual estimates of ages for employed persons, by industry.
guest2 Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:46 pm GMT. Average native speakers (and even unaverage) know nowhere near 60,000 words in English or any other language. The most careful studies show that even university-educated speakers top out at about 20,000 base words--and that's receptive, not active. For example, see the following study, which shows the average for university-educated speakers at about 17,000 base words:
One person used an estimated 795 words on average per day (an abstract in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one at night, Dr. Mehl jokes), while another used almost 47,000 words (both the least and the most talkative participant were men). However, the distributions were normal for both sexes and averaged out to have no statistical difference.