Career Switchers Skew Young

A new Pew Research Center survey says that only 15% of workers 50+ expect to make a career change, while 66% think they'll remain with their current employer for the remainder of their working lives.

That's a dramatic difference from the next-younger age group in the survey. 27% of employed adults aged 30 - 49 say it's "very likely" they'll change careers, and only 37% expect to stay with their current employer.

61% of almost 1,300 workers surveyed have already switched careers at least once.

Those expecting to change careers in the future tend to be younger, working part-time, or earning less than $30k / year.

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The survey, prepared for Labor Day 2007, is available here as a pdf. See page 14. A one paragraph summary is here.