{"id":20129,"date":"2015-07-13T12:09:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T17:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/where-teens-are-finding-summer-jobs-more-food-service-less-retail\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:45:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:45:57","slug":"where-teens-are-finding-summer-jobs-more-food-service-less-retail","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2015\/07\/13\/where-teens-are-finding-summer-jobs-more-food-service-less-retail\/","title":{"rendered":"Where teens are finding summer jobs: More food service, less retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2015\/07\/13\/where-teens-are-finding-summer-jobs-more-food-service-less-retail\/ft_15-07-13_summerjob_ii\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-271723\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f4f4f3\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f4f4f3;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"389\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/07\/FT_15.07.13_summerJob_II.png?resize=480,292 480w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/07\/FT_15.07.13_summerJob_II.png?resize=640,389 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-30315 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/07\/FT_15.07.13_summerJob_II.png\" alt=\"more teens serving food, fewer in retail\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Far fewer\u00a0U.S. teens are working during the summer compared with\u00a0years past, as we <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2015\/06\/23\/the-fading-of-the-teen-summer-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported last month<\/a>. But it turns out that teens who <em>are<\/em> finding work these days are more likely to be busing tables or tending a grill than staffing\u00a0a\u00a0mall boutique or T-shirt stand.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To get a sense of the kinds of jobs teens are working and how that&#8217;s changed, we looked at Bureau of Labor Statistics\u00a0data from July 2000 through July 2014. (Pre-2000 data aren&#8217;t comparable.) One trend jumped out immediately:\u00a0a\u00a0dropoff in teens working retail.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2015\/07\/13\/where-teens-are-finding-summer-jobs-more-food-service-less-retail\/ft_15-07-13_summerjob_ii_200px\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-271724\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e9e6e2\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e9e6e2;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"512\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/07\/FT_15.07.13_summerJob_II_200px.png?resize=200,512 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-30321 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/07\/FT_15.07.13_summerJob_II_200px.png\" alt=\"teen employment by sector\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last July, just over 1.2 million teens worked in the retail sector, compared with more than 2 million in\u00a0July 2000 \u2013 a 40.6% drop. Retail accounted for 24% of teen summer jobs in 2000 but only 21.7% last year. (Among all workers, by comparison,\u00a0retail employment was about 1% higher last July than it was in July 2000.)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, teens are more likely to be working at\u00a0hotels, restaurants and similar businesses. Nearly a third (32.2%) of employed teens last summer worked in the &#8220;accommodation and food services&#8221; sector, compared with 22.6% in July 2000. (The actual number in this sector fell a bit, from 1.9 million to 1.8 million, but they now make up a bigger share of a smaller total.)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up modestly was the &#8220;arts, entertainment and recreation&#8221; sector, in which 8.8% of\u00a0employed teens worked last July, versus 7.5% in 2000. But manufacturing and construction both were down, to 4.2% and 3.9%, respectively, of teen summer employment. A combined 450,000 teens worked in manufacturing or construction last July, less than half the combined number in July 2000.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What about this summer?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last month<\/a>, 32.1% of\u00a016- to 19-year-olds, or 5.3 million, were employed overall, suggesting the continuation of\u00a0a modest upward trend that started in 2011. But\u00a0nearly 1.5 million were counted as unemployed, meaning they were available and actively searching for work but had not yet found any. And far\u00a0more \u2013 9.84 million, or 59.2% of the total civilian non-institutional population of 16- to 19-year-olds \u2013 were not in the labor force at all, meaning they were neither employed nor actively looking for work. In June 2000, by contrast, only 6.3 million teens (39.8% of the total age group) were outside the labor force entirely; those numbers surged during the Great Recession and have yet to go down very much.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer teens are working summer jobs, but those who are are more likely to be in the accommodation and food service sector and less likely to be working 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