Younger and older teens saw a split in their job fortunes in October 2026.
Americans Age 16 and 17 saw their seasonally adjusted numbers among the employed increase for the third consecutive month, with 2,028,000 counted as having jobs. It was the first time since March 2026 that the number of working teens reach 2 million or higher as the employment situation younger teens finally appears to be improving after a prolonged downtrend.
Younger teens have seen a better than quarter-million seasonally adjusted increase in their ranks of the employed since bottoming in July 2026.
By contrast, older teens, Age 18 and 19, saw their employment ranks decrease by 90,000 from September 2026's level. Some 3,466,000 members of the older teen demographic were employed in October 2026. Unlike younger teen however, older teens have been seeing their numbers see-saw between 3.4 and 3.6 million since June 2026 as their employment levels have been relatively stable.
The following pair of charts shows the monthly seasonally adjusted data for the working teen demographic from January 2020 through October 2026.
Image Credit: Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Original source: National Youth Administration of Illinois. "Get the Facts about Occupations - Free Classes for Young Men and Women 16 to 25 years". This image is in the public domain and is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3f05219. We cropped the image for this article.
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