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YOUNG WORKER SAFETY AND HEALTH

 Charts on Young Worker Employment, Injuries and Illnesses

Selected Charts on Young Worker Employment, Injuries and Illnesses

This graph shows the distribution of employed youth FTEs ages 16 - 17 by occupation in the United States for the time period 2015.

Distribution of Employed Youth FTEs (Ages 16-17) by Occupation, United States, 2015
This pie chart shows the distribution of full type equivalents (FTEs) for employed youth ages 16-17 years by occupation in 2015. Service jobs were the primary occupation for 43% of all youth employment. This was followed by sales and office occupations with 32% of youth employment. (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Current Population Survey. NIOSH analyses using public microdata files.) 

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