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You indicated that you started a new job in the past 12 months. Is your main job (where you earn the most money) the same as it was a year ago?
Type of main job change in past year · Asked in 4 waves, 2022–2025 · 5,203 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
| Group | Different main job – new employer | Different main job – same employer | Same main job – started a second job | Was not working a year ago | Other | n | MoE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents |
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHED 2025 2 imputed values recoded to -1. | 2025-10-17 to 2025-10-28 | web | 12,934 | 1,283 |
| SHED 2024 1 imputed values recoded to -1. | 2024-10-18 to 2024-10-31 | web | 12,295 | 1,298 |
| SHED 2023 6 imputed values recoded to -1. | 2023-10-20 to 2023-11-05 | web | 11,400 | 1,258 |
| SHED 2022 3 imputed values recoded to -1. | 2022-10-21 to 2022-11-01 | web | 11,667 | 1,364 |
Shares of people who gave an answer. A group’s column is left blank in waves where its effective sample is under 50; hover for exact shares.
| 54% |
| 13% |
| 14% |
| 15% |
| 4% |
| 1283 |
| ±3 |
| 18–29 | 54% | 10% | 15% | 20% | 2% | 496 | ±5 |
| 30–44 | 53% | 18% | 14% | 11% | 4% | 435 | ±5 |
| 45–64 | 58% | 14% | 14% | 9% | 6% | 309 | ±6 |
| 65+ † | 38% | 8% | 19% | 25% | 11% | 43 | ±16 |
SHED 2025 · US adults 18+. Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.