- Millennials make up an outsized share of the workforce in industries ranging from hair salons to bars and restaurants.
- Using individual-level Census data, we found the millennial-aged percentage of the workforce in over 250 industries.
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Millennials make up an outsized share of the workforce in industries ranging from hair salons to bars and restaurants.
Using individual-level Census data from the Minnesota Population Center's 2017 American Community Survey Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, we estimated the share of millennials - adults age 21 to 36 in 2017, following the Pew Research Center's cutoffs for different generations - among the total population of employed adults working in each of the 266 industry groups included in the data.
Here are the 30 industries, excepting the US Armed Forces, with the highest share of millennials among their workforce, along with the average annual pay for millennial workers in each industry: