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Joel Fletcher said:
I would like to see a graph or pie chart of the working members, at guild shops... broken down into 10 year age groups.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
How old are we?
Joel Fletcher said:
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For comparison with census data in 2010 there were 185,209,998 people ages 20-64. Here is the breakdown by age:
20-29: 23.05%
30-39: 21.67%
40-49: 23.54%
50-59: 22.66%
60-64: 9.08%
Thanks for posting these stats, Jeff. This is the first time I have seen empirical data on this subject. It is useful, meaningful information. Make of it what you will.
Here is the breakdown adjusted for participation rate (e.g. only 55.2% of people aged 60-64 and 22.6% of people aged 65+ are employed while 83.2% of people aged 35-39 are working)
20-29: 21.46%
30-39: 21.74%
40-49: 23.46%
50-59: 21.30%
60+: 12.04%
My observations (admittedly anecdotal) are that older members have problems finding employment because
A) Most of their job-support network (usually slightly older artists who they have worked with for years) are retired.
B) Executives -- mostly younger -- tend to tilt in favor of younger artists.
55 working nonunion.
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