Unlike boomers, millennials didn’t find good jobs until their 30s. Here’s what it means for colleges and employers.
Rick Seltzer
May 19, 2022
New reports describe how education-work pipelines fail many young adults, especially those of low socioeconomic status. What can prompt changes?
Young adults are facing lengthier and more complicated pathways to quality jobs as postsecondary education has grown more valuable in the labor market — and those pathways aren’t equal for those of different races and genders.
That’s the top takeaway from two new reports released Thursday by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Most of the oldest millennials didn’t settle into good jobs until their early 30s, the reports found. In contrast, older members of the baby boomer generation mostly found good jobs by their mid-20s.
