Chances are, if you have any health care needs, shop in a mall or eat at restaurants, someone who helps you out is age 20-34. Health care staff, frontline retail workers and food service employees make up nearly one quarter of that demographic’s 44.4 million U.S. workers.
Men 20-24 | Men 25-34 |
Occupation | % of men
20-24 | Occupation | % of men
25-34 |
| Retail salesperson | 4.20% | Computer and mathematical occupations | 4.80% |
| Freight/stock laborer | 3.90% | Truck driver | 4.10% |
| Construction laborer | 3.30% | Architecture/engineering | 3.10% |
| Cook | 3.30% | Carpenter | 3.00% |
| Carpenter | 3.10% | Supervisor/manager of retail sales workers | 2.60% |
| Truck driver | 3.00% | Construction laborer | 2.40% |
| Stock clerk/order filler | 2.90% | Freight/stock laborer | 2.10% |
| Waiter | 2.80% | Retail salesperson | 1.90% |
| Cashier | 2.60% | Cook | 1.60% |
| Supervisor/manager of retail sales workers | 2.40% | Ground maintenance | 1.60% |
| Ground maintenance | 2.40% | | |
Women 20-24 | Women 25-34 | Occupation | % of women
20-24 | Occupation | % of women 25-34 |
| Cashier | 7.70% | Computer and mathematical occupations | 6.00% |
| Waitress | 6.70% | Secretary/administrative assistant | 4.30% |
| Retail salesperson | 5.30% | Elementary/middle school teacher | 4.00% |
| Secretary/administrative assistant | 3.70% | Production line | 3.90% |
| Nurses aide/home health aide | 3.50% | Registered nurse | 3.00% |
| Receptionist/information clerk | 3.30% | Nurses aide/home health aide | 2.70% |
| Production line | 3.30% | Cashier | 2.70% |
| Customer service representative | 2.90% | Customer service representative | 2.50% |
| Child care worker | 2.70% | Supervisor/manager of retail sales workers | 2.30% |
| Computer and mathematical occupations | 2.20% | Community and social services | 2.30% |
Source: SportsBusiness Journal analysis of Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics
